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Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer
- To: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer
- From: "Dmitry Timoshkov" <dmitry at baikal dot ru>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:03:29 +0800
- References: <20010628221547.A3873@redhat.com> <20010629174426.C9027@redhat.com> <02bd01c1020a$19687850$c6823bd5@dima> <068c01c1021e$9dccbe80$806410ac@local>
"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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