[gs-devel] GPL Ghostscript 8.62 and GhostPDL 1.52 released

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "Ralph" == Ralph Giles <giles at ghostscript.com> writes:

Ralph> I heard the talk, but I don't agree with it. The x11alpha device
Ralph> has always had these bugs, but fixing them wasn't a priority when
Ralph> we didn't encounter them during normal development. ... So while
Ralph> it's embarrassing, I don't think it's release critical.

Ralph> Is consensus blowing the other way?

As someone who actually uses gs from the command line, both to view ps
docs and to interactively test out PS code — it is often much faster
than the alternatives — I very much prefer having x11alpha as the
default.

A more useful change might be to default to BATCH, perhaps with a
single character option to delete BATCH from systemdict (I don’t
see an easy way to unset a «-d» from the command line...).  BATCH
is almost always desired when specifying files on the cli.  But
that can certainly wait for 8.64.

-JimC
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