2.99 Plugins: ScriptFu: plan to obsolete erase-rows.scm (move to gimp-dat-extras repo)
This is for public comment about a planned change.
The file scripts/erase-rows.scm will be removed from the repo for the master 2.99 branch. And moved to the repo gimp-data-extras, where other little used scripts are kept.
These implement PDB procedures script-fu-erase-rows and ...erase-nth-rows. Since 2014 they have been in the PDB, but not in the Gimp menus. Commit 639fo757 removed them from the Gimp menus. The are still in the menus and user manual for 2.8. They have been maintained since 2014.
The soon-to-be-removed procedures are not called by any scripts in the Gimp repo.
Removing them means that any third-party plugins that call script-fu-erase-rows will not work in Gimp 3 unless they also install or include the source of said PDB procedures.
Any plugins that are not in the menus are not easy to test. An alternative might be to restore them to the menus, keep them in the repo, and only install them in a not stable build.
See also #8464 (closed), #9878 (closed) and #9868 (closed)