Message: 9
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:16:33 -0700
From: Per Bjornsson <perbj(a)stanford.edu>
Subject: GPL Ghostscript 8.01 [Re: Packages with newer upstream
versions]
To: jpo(a)di.uminho.pt, Development discussions related to Fedora Core
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On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 09:51, Jos Pedro Oliveira wrote:
> package(s) upsteam rawhide
> =======================================
ghostscript 8.01 7.0.7
GPL Ghostscript 8.01 (from the main Ghostscript maintainers, they
dropped the official GNU affiliation after 7.0.7 essentially because of
disagreements with the FSF so it's no longer called GNU Ghostscript) was
announced without much fanfare in February (strangely there is no
release announcement on the
ghostscript.com web page but there was an
announcement on the mailing list [1].) I haven't tried it yet and can't
vouch for how useful an upgrade this is but it can be found here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897&package_id...
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs801/ghostscript-8.01.tar...
(Note that it's now in the GPL directory as opposed to the gnu directory
of the Ghostscript FTP site.) Is the Fedora version so heavily patched
that an upgrade would be difficult? (The Fedora package has certainly
gone through quite a few iterations and seems to have a bunch of
patches.)
Cheers,
Per
[1]
http://www.ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2004-February/002909.html
--
Per Bjornsson <perbj(a)stanford.edu>
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
This is a bear of a package to build and include all the extra printers
it supports. Updating this is not a trivial job, even with the new auto*
stuff used to build GS.
GPL GS 8.02 is expected to have CUPS integration of some sorts, but I
would not expect it soon.
T. Waugh might not talk to me in IRC anymore ;)
Cheers,
Peter