> > Message: 9 > Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:16:33 -0700 > From: Per Bjornsson <perbj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: GPL Ghostscript 8.01 [Re: Packages with newer upstream > versions] > To: jpo@xxxxxxxxxxxx, Development discussions related to Fedora Core > <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <1087528593.2696.185.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 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=108733&release_id=214554 > ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs801/ghostscript-8.01.tar.bz2 > > (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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University I have filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126326 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
