[gs-devel] Re: Merger ESP/GPL GS: GPL GS 8.57 is out, how to proceed with the merger

[Till Kamppeter]

Ralph Giles wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:01:47PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> 
>> I have seen that GPL GhostScript 8,57 has been released. How should I 
>> porceed now with the merger? Should the branch now be merged into HEAD 
>> or are there any preparative steps needed?
> 
> Ok, I don't immediately see a single strategy that would work for 
> both what you say CUPS needs and preserve the existing functionality
> for those who depend on it, so please proceed by making the core changes 
> depend on a switch, preserving the current behavior as the default. 
> Please do this on the branch, and then merge down to trunk after we've 
> verified it works on win32.

So I will bracket the tray policy change appropriately so that it gets 
only active when using a command line options. The scripts in the cups/ 
directory will call Ghostscript with that option then. For the Windows 
compatibility I will revert the changes on version.mak.

    Till