Cups and Ghostscript

Chuck Mead csm at MoonGroup.com
Tue Jan 28 19:31:14 GMT 2003


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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Rick Altherr posted the following:

RA>As you know, we haven't updated cups in quite some time as a necessary
RA>component, pstoraster was removed.  Easy Software decided to include it with
RA>their own version of ghostscript called espgs.  They provide a patch against
RA>GNU ghostscript version 7.05, but not APFL version 8.0.
RA>
RA>I propose we either move back to version 7.05 and apply the patch, or move
RA>from ghostscript to espgs.  That way we
RA>a) are using GPL instead of APFL
RA>b) can update cups to 1.1.18
RA>
RA>Any thoughts?

Sounds reasonable.

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