Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

[Nicholas Wourms]

Dario Alcocer wrote:

>Are there any guidelines or suggestions regarding packaging
>source, patches and binaries for programs (like Ghostscript)
>that can be built for either Cygwin or Cygwin/XFree86?
>
>Unless I hear a very compelling reason to do otherwise, I'm
>planning on releasing three binary packages and a single
>source package:
>
>  * A ghostscript-base package, which includes all the
>    common files required by both program versions.
>
>  * A ghostscript package, which contains only the non-X11
>    version of gs.exe, and a README describing the build
>    process.
>
>  * A ghostscript-x11 package, which contains only the X11
>    version of gs.exe, possibly renamed to xgs or gsx, and
>    a README describing how to build it for XFree86.
>
>  * A source package which contains all the patches for both
>    builds and both README files.
>
>I'm picking this packaging method so that both X11 and non-X11
>versions can both be installed, without getting into problems
>when un-installing one and not the other.
>
>I've looked around in the cygwin-apps archives, and I've not
>found this discussed with respect to other apps (e.g. rxvt)
>that can be built for either Cygwin or Cygwin/XFree86.
>
What version of ghostscript?  Hopefully it will be the new 7.x series... 
 As for your packaging quandry, I'll let our in-house expert Chuck 
comment on "how it should be".

Cheers,
Nicholas