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       For a quick (but outdated) intro on the general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.

       



























































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