[gs-devel] Re: GNU Ghostscript release numbering

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Le mardi 24 octobre 2006 à 12:26 -0700, Ralph Giles a écrit :
> Hi Guys,

Hi Ralph and others,

> 
> We noticed recently you've done new GNU Ghostscript release. It's always 
> nice to see more interest in gs! Do you have anything you'd like to feed 
> back to us? We'd like to merge enough of the community patches into our 
> releases so we can reduce the number of variants distributions have to 
> ship.

This sound very good for me, thanks to your interest in this area. If
you want I can list the changes made in GNU version for beginning the
merge process. Also, I will ask the guys from esp-ghostscript to discuss
an eventual cooperation.

> 
> Also, if you're not doing a fork, we'd appreciate it if you used tiny 
> revision numbers for your release, the was ESP Ghostscript does. We find 
> that's much less confusing for users and developers alike, and everyone 
> knows what upstream release the code is based on. We've not release GPL 
> Ghostscript 8.55 yet, but when we do, it will be a different codebase 
> from the GNU Ghostscript 8.55 you just put up.

This sound also good for me, they've apply this numbering to GNU version
for a question of simplicity and AFPL/GPL ghostscript have always a
non-linear numbering policy ;)

They can apply, like esp-ghostscript, a micro-version numbering, or an
extension like -g1. I will investigate in this ways for a lesser
confusion in gs  domain :)

Thanks for your interest.

Cheers.

Didier Link

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