NAME Gimp - Perl extension for writing Gimp Extensions/Plug- ins/Load & Save-Handlers HUH? For a quick (but outdated) intro on the general look & feel, go to http://lehmann.home.ml.org/gimp.html Dov Grobgeld has written a nice tutorial as well, you can find it at: http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/gimp/perl-tut.html PREREQUISITES To install/use this perl extension, you need to have the following software packages installed installed: The GNU Image Manipulation Program, i.e. The GIMP: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ GTK+, the X11 toolkit: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk/ Gtk, the perl extension for the above: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk/perl/ Optionally, you can install PDL (the perl data language), to easily manipulate pixel data. PDL is available at any CPAN mirror, version 1.9905 or higher is recommended. General Information about the Gimp can be found at http://www.gimp.org/ INSTALLATION On unix, you should be able to run ./configure, make, make test && make install. To get a listing of configuration options, enter ./configure --help On non-unix systems, well.... PLOP Scheme is the crappiest language ever. Have a look at Haskell (http://www.haskell.org) to see how functional is done right. 22/May/98 perl 5.004, patch 65 5