[cups.general] GPL GhostScript 8.15

[Michael Sweet]

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> That's a good idea doing the GhostScript update in a joint effort Linux 
> distributions and developers of printing-related free software.
> 
> But we should do it different as it was done before, as we must make 
> further updates of the GPL GhostScript as easy as possible. So all 
> changes of the original GhostScript, as adding the "cups" device, adding 
> other devices (built-in printer drivers), bug fixes introduced by the 
> ESP GhostScript developers, ... must be well documented, better even 
> located in extra directories in the CVS tree, as patches, or even as 
> code modules which are picked up by the configure/make process and 
> automatically added to the core GhostScript code. So new GPL GhostScript 
> releases only need to be "dropped in" and we are up-to-date again with 
> ESP GhostScript.
> 
> Also all distro-specific extensions should go in (and if they are 
> Linux-specific, compilation should be automatically deactivated if 
> configure discovers if we are on non-Linux). Patching by distribution 
> vendors should be eliminated or at least reduced to a minimum.

It would be nice to make the process as "painless" as possible.

FWIW, we will be moving to Subversion for CUPS in the near future
(instead of CVS), and I'm considering moving ESP Ghostscript to
a local Subversion repo as well when I make the switch.

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Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com