{"id":4512,"date":"2014-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?guid=635741ace2fb083e330dc8b83cc0c461"},"modified":"2014-06-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T22:00:00","slug":"gimp-perl-release-candidate-ready-for-testing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4512","title":{"rendered":"Gimp-Perl release candidate ready for\u00a0testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been possible to use various scripting languages to automate <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> for a long time. But until recently <a href=\"https:\/\/git.gnome.org\/browse\/gimp-perl\">Perl bindings for <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span><\/a> were considerably out of date due to lack of interest from contributors. Fortunately, a while ago Ed J started working on updating those, and now a release candidate is available for&nbsp;testing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metacpan.org\/release\/ETJ\/Gimp-2.30_05\">Gimp-Perl version 2.30_05<\/a> is on <span class=\"caps\">CPAN<\/span> now. It supports <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> 2.8 and provides the following&nbsp;features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An autosave script (not installed by default, <code>examples\/autosave2<\/code>) will save in its own directory files that were opened and changed, then reopen them on <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> startup; if installed, will start along with <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>A plugin registry viewer, installed by default to <code>Filters\/Browse Plug-in Registry<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>A Perl console, installed by default to <code>Filters\/Perl\/Console<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The way to install the release candidate on Linux&nbsp;is:<\/p>\n<p><code>perl -MCPAN -e \"install 'ETJ\/Gimp-2.30_05.tar.gz'\"<\/code><\/p>\n<p>If you encounter any bugs, please report them on <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/enter_bug.cgi?product=gimp-perl\">bugzilla.gnome.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s been possible to use various scripting languages to automate <span>GIMP<\/span> for a long time. But until recently <a href=\"https:\/\/git.gnome.org\/browse\/gimp-perl\">Perl bindings for <span>GIMP<\/span><\/a> were considerably out of date due to lack of interest from contributors. Fortunately, a while ago Ed J started working on updating those, and now a release candidate is available for&nbsp;testing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metacpan.org\/release\/ETJ\/Gimp-2.30_05\">Gimp-Perl version 2.30_05<\/a> is on <span>CPAN<\/span> now. It supports <span>GIMP<\/span> 2.8 and provides the following&nbsp;features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An autosave script (not installed by default, <code>examples\/autosave2<\/code>) will save in its own directory files that were opened and changed, then reopen them on <span>GIMP<\/span> startup; if installed, will start along with <span>GIMP<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>A plugin registry viewer, installed by default to <code>Filters\/Browse Plug-in Registry<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>A Perl console, installed by default to <code>Filters\/Perl\/Console<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The way to install the release candidate on Linux&nbsp;is:<\/p>\n<p><code>perl -MCPAN -e \"install 'ETJ\/Gimp-2.30_05.tar.gz'\"<\/code><\/p>\n<p>If you encounter any bugs, please report them on <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/enter_bug.cgi?product=gimp-perl\">bugzilla.gnome.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4512\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,6,44,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-floss","category-imaging","category-oss"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9jmWQ-1aM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4738,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}