Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 03:35:36 +0200 From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@xxxxxxx> > 3) The old-style Ghostscript driver (stp), delivered as a patch to > Ghostscript. That is, if we don't want to deprecate this > altogether in 4.3, now that IJS functionality is reasonably mature > in GNU Ghostscript. > > I would much prefer to see the Ghostscript project own this. They > already have it in 6.53 and newer GNU releases, and we'd just as > soon get rid of it. It's in GhostScript, when its interface to the library does not change you can drop yours. And with the current development policy of GhostScript you would easily get a newer gdevstp.c in when it gets necessary. It should be a legacy interface, distros should drop it and use IJS instead. This would remove the dependency of GhostScript on libgimpprint, so packaging to make a consistent distro gets easier. That suggests that we could drop it right now. IJS will have been available for at least 6 months by the time 4.4 (or 5.0) comes out, so we shouldn't need to support this beyond 4.2. > Thoughts? This is a fairly radical proposal in some ways. However, > the current 4.3 API is still completely compatible with 4.2, and > perhaps we should do a 4.4 that's simply 4.2 (or 4.3 as it now stands, > with things cleaned up) with this split. Yes a 4.4 would be good for it. Due to the new PPDish Foomatic I will probably also soon come out with 3.0 (and drop even 2.0). This suggests a relatively near-term 4.4, without major API changes (and possibly without any API changes at all). It would primarily be a packaging change, with some minor new features. It could actually be called a 4.2 release, although I don't like the idea of doing major packaging changes during a stable series. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for Gimp Print/stp -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
