Re: gs in sid very outdated
Alan Shutko wrote:
>
> "Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com> writes:
>
> > is a 5.10 that *does*! Seems to me it's keeping up with drivers, not gs
> > versions, that may be the real problem.
>
> In this case, GNU GS 6.50 has nearly all the versions people want
> built-in.
Hmmm, downloaded 6.51 from SourceForge, and still don't see stp.
> I think it's only missing gimp-print.
Well gs' stp driver was developed conjointly (is that a word?) with
gimp-print, so that explains it, I guess.
I thought gimp-print was only a plug-in for gimp, but the its drivers
were developed to be usable by gs as well. Is that wrong, or were you
just shorthanding?
>
> > While I'm idly wishing, wouldn't it be neat if gs could be more
> > modular?
>
> Indeed, it would, and the GS people are working on it. 8^) Go to
> http://www.ghostscript.com and help out!
Thanks for the info. I'll see what a C sub-hacker might be able to do.
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