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| deekej | Hello chrisl, I'm working on rebase to 9.25 for RHEL-7, and I have found out you have dropped the 2 cups filters previously shipped with Ghostscript... Unfortunately I think we won't be able to do a rebase of cups-filters as well. So I was wondering... | 10:12.49 |
| | Would it be possible to just add the source code of those filters into 9.25 cups/ folder, and build them like this? | 10:13.19 |
| kens | Which fiels are you referring to deekej ? | 10:13.21 |
| deekej | kens: I see gstopxl and gstoraster here... | 10:14.05 |
| kens | These don't sound like Ghostscript devices, are we talking about shell scritps ? | 10:14.37 |
| deekej | kens: also, some pxlcolor.ppd and pxlmono.ppd | 10:14.40 |
| | kens: gstopxl is a shell script, gstoraster is some ELF binary | 10:15.19 |
| kens | Well as far as I know we haven't removed them from the source tree | 10:15.19 |
| deekej | hmm, maybe they have moved, but I don't see the source code for them in 9.25, only in 9.07 (cups/ folder) | 10:16.03 |
| kens | Well you're talking archaeology now | 10:16.38 |
| deekej | you might have dropped them since latest cups-filters should have them IIRC | 10:16.42 |
| kens | I would imagine that's why. | 10:16.56 |
| | I'm farily sure that gstoratser isn't actulaly anything of ours | 10:17.13 |
| deekej | I'm wondering if I could just backport the source code for it into 9.25 and recompile it, if the Ghostcript would still work with them like this | 10:17.39 |
| kens | OK this commit: | 10:17.54 |
| | http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=9304a21699a6c17579fae32f44f5c92a37c13e2d | 10:17.54 |
| | AFAIK this is basically nothing to do with Ghostscritp. Its possible these *use* Ghostscript, but GS itself won't have changed, so they should still work | 10:18.33 |
| | But you should read teh commit message for details. | 10:18.55 |
| | As you can see, this wasn't done by the Artifex developers | 10:19.06 |
| | Alternatively, you could contact Till, of course | 10:19.54 |
| | Readign the commtns, it looks too me like you should really be using cups-filters, but if you're into 5 year old changes, I don't know how that would fit with the resto of the system. I can't see why you would want to use this with GS 9.25 though | 10:21.13 |
| deekej | it's because of compatibility, kens. We're doing rebase to 9.25 in RHEL-7, and that would remove those filters from customers machine. So I either have to add it back manually somehow, or do a rebase in cups-filters (unlikely). :) | 10:36.25 |
| | And yes, I also get a feeling after a discussion with my colleage that those filters are just using Ghostscript, and Ghostscript does not need them at all. | 10:37.08 |
| | IMHO, it should be OK to add them back to the build and ship them as before, to not break things | 10:37.36 |
| | however, it will need to be tested further :) | 10:37.45 |
| kens | Well, its up to you. I'd thave thought that either you have the latest cups-filters (or at least one no more than 5 years old), in which case GS is just a dependency, or you don't. In which case you should upgrade. But.... Not really a question for us I think. | 10:38.32 |
| chrisl | deekej: Those filters were moved from Ghostscript to (I think) cups, or one of the cups subpackages - AFAIK, the source didn't change with that move | 12:13.39 |
| | FWIW: https://github.com/richud/gstoraster | 12:14.53 |
| taviso | Hello, whats the status of the errorhandler stuff? I'm kinda blocking on reviewing more of the internals until I know what the solution is, are you just going with s/def/odef/g? | 17:31.47 |
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