Need a ghostscript maintainer

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@baikal.ru
Sun Jul 1 05:03:00 GMT 2001


"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.
--
Dmitry.


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