freeframe support for gephex-0.5

Hi there,

currently I'm working on the freeframe [1] wrapper plugin for gephex-0.5.
For those who don't know: this plugin will be used to load all available
freeframe plugins and export them as regular gephex-0.5 units
to the gephex core (more precisely, it will export the unit factories
that can create units).

Right now, I'm finishing the translation of the freeframe plugin info, caps
and extended info to gephex-style spec and port spec strings [2].
So far, I see no major problems and expect the wrapper to be available soon.

To effectively test it, two things are necessary:
  1/ freeframe plugins
  2/ some possibility to load and display images in gephex-0.5

(what's _not_ needed that urgently is a new konsolenphex,
because the current one is sufficient for testing.)

1/ does anybody know about freeframe plugins that compile on linux?
(on windows, petesplugins [3] would be optimal for testing, but
  until now gephex-0.5 does not compile on windows...)

2/ The right thing here seems a prototype for a video server and
an output server, for a draft see [4].
Alternatively, we could write units to load images and display them
by porting frbinmodule and frboutmodule from gephex-0.4.
I favour the first approach because that's the way we want to go in
the long way.


Please note that there are many bug fixes and a lot of development
in my integration branch ([email protected]/gephex--georg--0.5)
which have not been merged into [email protected]/gephex--main--0.5,
and that even my integration branch is currently not up to date.

Regards,

Georg


[1] http://www.freeframe.org
[2] http://lists.gephex.org/pipermail/gephex-devel/2004-February/000041.html
[3] http://www.petewarden.com
[4] http://people.gephex.org/~georg/ipmsc.html