picking the best option from similar packages

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 14:47 -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> hp wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> > > enscript - updated 2 yrs ago
> > > a2ps - updated 5yrs ago.
> > > [...]
> > Doesn't 2 vs. 5 years seem sort of academic? Degrees of deadness. ;-)
> 
> Indeed.  But really, we should not assume that a long-unmodified piece
> of software is abandoned in a pejorative sense.  It may simply be
> complete, mature, and of that rare variant of software that has few
> bugs.  I think they call it "finished". :-)
> 

except without utf8 support I'd argue that it's not finished.

-sv