Hi,
Am 26.03.2017 um 22:06 schrieb Roman Lebedev:
It is a lua script, and they are called scrips, not plugins.
In darktable, plugin might refer to the lib/iop/view, i.e. in general
something that needs to be actually compiled from sources.
I really do not want to start a fruitless discussion on naming
conventions and words.
However, I also think that the term »plugin« describes much better what
lua scripts are good for in darktable. Commonly, the term plugin refers
to some piece of software that can be pugged into some existing software
without modifying (and recompiling) the software that gets extended by
the plugin. This is exactly, what lua scripts do. The term »lua
script« describes on a very technical level what some piece of software
is, a script, rather than what it is good for. Furthermore, employing
the definition of a plugin from above a darktable lib/iop/view is not a
plugin because a new lib/iop/view usually requires a recompilation of
the whole darktable source (as far as I know).
Therefore, I can understand that people that are new to darktable get
confused by these terms.
Heiko
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