[Kde-print-devel] The New Ghostscript

[Gavin Beatty]

Of course, as everyone understandably already knew, there is no issue
to be resolved. Found that out the day after the mail.

Nothing to see here.

On 04/08/2007, Gavin Beatty <gavinbeatty at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Might I swing everyone over to this page?:
>   http://www.cups.org/espgs/articles.php?L484
>
> Of particular note:
> <quote>
> This new version contains (...) all built-in printer drivers listed in
> the OpenPrinting database, (...)
> </quote>
>
> It's unclear to me whether this means 1) "all drivers" or 2) "all
> drivers for which OpenPrinting host LSB RPMs".
>
> 1) means my GSoC project is completely redundant.
>
> 2) means the "install driver" part is redundant. There are still many
> drivers listed on OpenPrinting for which they only provide a URL to
> sourceforge etc. It's far less useful for the user to just get a URL.
> In fact, one might say there is no need to for the wizard I have been
> developing at all - a simple link to the OpenPrinting database search
> engine would suffice.
>
> Needless to say, the new ghostscript will find its way into distros
> "soon". Perhaps before KDE4.0 does. I believe we're in freeze for
> adding my work so 4.1 is the target. :|
>
> I'm currently asking on the printing-foomatic and printint-discuss
> mailing lists of OpenPrinting. I can't seem to find a mailing list for
> the new GPL Ghostscript - does anyone know of one?
>
> Thanks,
> Gavin
>
>
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