Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer.

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

ghostscript has already been built successfully.  Check the archives.

However, this really doesn't help in my quest for a maintainer.

I did have one (1) response to my query.  I hope that this person was
serious and is setting up the environment now for building ghostscript
now.  I'll be very happy if that is the case.

cgf

On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:43:24AM -0400, Ronald W. Cook wrote:
>I would very much like ghostscript "gs" available on the cygwin/X
>command line.
>
>I have installed it on Solaris and need it for research with Cygwin.
>
>Efforts to compile it with gcc stumble on a vfork "temporary"
>problem that, researched a bit, relate to resource problems that I
>have not gotten around yet.  There were also unresolved X symbols.
>
>Ghostscript is extremely handy with Generic Mapping Tool which
>successfully compiled OOTB.  GMT is a fantastic mapping program
>as well as a general purpose plotting program and ideally suited
>for unix and piping.
>
>I don't think I would want maintenance responsibility; but I will
>continue to try to get it working and if successfull will post to the
>list.
>
>Last I used xv, it relied on gs, as do other programs.  gs is handy
>for converting postscript to tiff, jpeg, etc. for import into Word or
>Powerpoint, and the quad combination gs, GMT, W & PP are the
>main reason I went after this dual OS platform.  Well, scripting
>and vi were other  main reasons.
>
>In a pinch, I use the Windows binary version.
>
>"The old one is too busy currently."
>Ron Cook
>cowaro.com
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
>To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 5:44 PM
>Subject: Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> cgf

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