GPL Ghostscript 8.01 [Re: Packages with newer upstream versions]

[Per Bjornsson]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 09:51, José Pedro Oliveira wrote:
> package(s)     upsteam        rawhide
> =======================================
ghostscript      8.01           7.0.7

GPL Ghostscript 8.01 (from the main Ghostscript maintainers, they
dropped the official GNU affiliation after 7.0.7 essentially because of
disagreements with the FSF so it's no longer called GNU Ghostscript) was
announced without much fanfare in February (strangely there is no
release announcement on the ghostscript.com web page but there was an
announcement on the mailing list [1].) I haven't tried it yet and can't
vouch for how useful an upgrade this is but it can be found here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897&package_id=108733&release_id=214554
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs801/ghostscript-8.01.tar.bz2

(Note that it's now in the GPL directory as opposed to the gnu directory
of the Ghostscript FTP site.) Is the Fedora version so heavily patched
that an upgrade would be difficult? (The Fedora package has certainly
gone through quite a few iterations and seems to have a bunch of
patches.)

Cheers,
Per

[1] http://www.ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2004-February/002909.html

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Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University