After finding that I was unable to modify my add-on to display the image metadata using Exiftool, I contacted one of the developers who built a Python interface and his comments at Exiftool location · Issue #62 · sylikc/pyexiftool · GitHub , as I understand them, imply that if I could manually copy the necessary executable (and its supporting data) one might be able to still use that plug-in.
Question: is there such an equivalent place or local variable which could be tweaked so that Exiftool and its support data could located?
@tester0077
The Command Line Interface “version” options for the Gramps executable will list paths for your installation. The text-based list includes Python and the OS environment variables.
I have in the past, though I am not sure what you think I would find.
The interface to the Exiv2 library is part of the base Gramps code, as I understand things and that would include code to support the Exiv2 library, but I have not thoroughly tracked down just how this code is prepared for Gramps.
I currently have way too many irons in the fire to try and also look into this issue.
Since I don’t have msys or ming installed, that path is meaningless on my PC - I am assuming you’re referring to a Win installation?
Though I suspect that having either installed would not help with the problem of grafting in external libraries or applications