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nicolleen
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GIMP: Python support?

Hi,

I'm only a user and don't know enough about programming. I keep coming across Python support needed for several plugins, now there seems to be a handful of portable python versions (pythonportable and portable python and 2.5.4 and 2.6 and 3.x ...) which I installed but I wasn't successful any further or don't know how to. Now I found this thread https://portableapps.com/node/16283 and I would like to know if this is still the case (even with portable python) or if there is a way of python support for GIMP portable and how to achieve this for non-experts.

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niki

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Perhaps, if only Python were

Perhaps, if only Python were to be specially packaged by PortableApps, in a manner like Java Portable is, which can be utilized by OpenOffice.org Portable:

https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/java_portable

At least this seems to be a similar case scenario:

OpenOffice.org Portable + Java Portable
GIMP Portable + Python Portable

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Unfortunately

the various different versions of Python have very poor inter-operability.

The Python dev-team have consciously broken backwards compatibility on a number of occasions, such that a script for 2.5.x may very well not run on 2.6.x, etc.

Because of this, every app that has Python support tends to require a fairly specific Python version, which makes it impractical to have a shared common install for all the apps.

The same applies to local installs. Several of the servers here at work which have apps on them that require python end up with 2 or 3 full python installs, and managing it can be somewhat.... frustrating.

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Ok, so this means that there

Ok, so this means that there is no way of having python running for portable GIMP unless I can portabilize it myself, did I understand that right?

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