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Re: Trial Packaging for pstoedit-3.42


>>>>> James R Phillips writes:

    > --- "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com> wrote:
    >> Hi
    >> 
    >> Your patch doesn't apply cleanly. Try the below patches.

    > Ok, I realized that a couple hours after I posted the links, and corrected the
    > problem, but I guess you downloaded before I got that done.  Just before I
    > posted the initial source package, I found that the index.htm file in the
    > documentation contained commercial advertising, so I edited it, to remove the
    > ads.  But all the docs were using dos cr-lf formatting, rather than unix lf,
    > which for some reason makes patch barf, even though diff computes fine.  I'm
    > sure there is an elegant way to solve that problem using diff, but I couldn't
    > find it.  I fixed it by putting a d2u command in the unpack function in the
    > packaging script.  Is there any problem with that solution?


I don't think so, but I would report upstream.

    >> o Your README states that libswf could be used for SWF support.
    >> But configure checks for libming from
    >> o ming - http://ming.sourceforge.net/ -

    > Good catch.  I was going by the docs at the web site, and was led astray.  I'll
    > ask Dr. Glunz to update his docs.  I guess your second patch takes care of
    > this.

Yap

    > I'm thinking now that packaging plotutils/libplot and then configuring/linking
    > pstoedit against that would greatly expand the range of output formats
    > available from pstoedit.  What would you think about deferring a pstoedit
    > package until I make a plotutils package available?

Good idea, and I try to build a ming package.

Ciao
  Volker


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