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Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer


Cygwin path unixlike and the ability to use GS in scripts are crucial
at least for `teTeX' if one want manipulate figures (for example):
futhermore is hard to say what is crucial or not for an arbitrary user.
As other basic tools, GS is needed to a get a good unixlike environment.

Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> 
> "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:15:47PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > > >Anyone interested in being the new ghostscript maintainer?
> > > > >
> > > > >The old one is too busy currently.
> > > > >
> > > > >Send me private email (?!?) if you're interested.
> > > >
> > > > No takers?  Isn't anyone even curious about this?  I'll have to remove
> > > > ghostscript from the distribution if we can't get a maintainer.
> > >
> > > Since ghostscript is fairly well supported for native win32 builds
> > (binaries
> > > could be found quite easy too) and presumely doesn't use any unix specific
> > > functionality, it could be possible to not provide it with Cygwin at all.
> >
> > In fact it didn't use to be provided. Users asked for it. Check the
> > archives. (Native ghostscript doesn't support cygwin paths for starters &&
> > what about X support).
> 
> Well, cygwin path is not the crucial argument for a user working in the win32
> environment, is it? An X support is not so critical either, while we are not
> talking about remote displays.
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