cups gimp-print ghostscript 8.14

[Anonymous]

Michael Sweet wrote:
> Anonymous wrote:
> > I am hoping that Easy SW will someday upgrade ESPGS, since it is
> > pretty aged nowdays. I found a way to hack around ghostscript v8.14
> > into compiling with the espgs gdevstp driver (which didn't compile
> > under gs8.14, failed with some error about previous declaration of
> > stp_map_16m_rgb_color)
> > ...
>
> We can't update ESPGS until they make a new GNU release of
> Ghostscript.  That was supposed to happen already, but hasn't.
>
> The current gdevcups.c compiles against GS 8.x - you just can't
> distribute the combination due to license conflicts (GPL vs AFPL)
>
> Also, the STP interface for Gimp-Print is deprecated and no longer
> supported as of Gimp-Print 5.0 (currently in beta).  You should be
> using either the IJS or native CUPS Gimp-Print drivers - the STP
> driver in Ghostscript is unnecessary.
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Printing Software for UNIX                       http://www.easysw.com



See : http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/gnu/gpl801.htm