[gs-devel] Werner Fink's ESP Ghostscript patches

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

Werner, you have contributed many patches to ESP Ghostscript during the 
whole ESP Ghostscript era. Now as ESP Ghostscript is discontinued and 
most of it is merged into GPL Ghostscript the standard Ghostscript of 
distros will be GPL Ghostscript. I have already switched over the 
Ghostscript in the Ubuntu distribution.

I have done some small checks and your patches did not get applied into 
GPL Ghostscript, so most of the bugs you have found and fixed are still 
existent in GPL Ghostscript, so they will reappear in the distributions 
soon.

I would appreciate very much if you could move over your patches to GPL 
Ghostscript. Here is a list of the SVN revisions of ESP Ghostscript 
where I have committed your patches:

http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.commit+v:4307
http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.commit+v:4308
http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.commit+v:4309
http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.commit+v:4398
http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.commit+v:4583
http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.commit+v:4835

(I will also send an additional e-mail only to Werner and Ralph with all 
the patches attached).

Werner can you port the patches to GPL Ghostscript? Note that all 
patches on files in the addons/ subdirectory of ESP GS are not needed 
any more in GPL GS, as they are already applied, because everything from 
addons/ of the newest ESP GS I have moved into contrib/ of GPL GS.

Thank you very much for your contributions, Werner.

    Till