Hi all, I would like to propose that BLFS remove the GNOME GPdf and GGV packages and replace them with the GNOME evince package. Evince is a packages aimed to replace individual document viewing packages currently used by GNOME. Evince can display PDF, PostScript, DjVu, DVI and TIFF files (perhaps others as well). Here is a link to Evince's home page. http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/
Here is a link to the NEWS file for the GNOME 2.12.0 release, where evince is listed, and GPdf and GGV are not: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.12/2.12.0/NEWS Here is my reasoning for the proposed change: 1. GPdf does not appear to be maintained any longer. There as been no new release since 2.10.0 (March 7,2005) and GPdf is not listed in the desktop packages referenced in the GNOME-2.12 series of packages. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.12/ 2. GPdf was not updated to include fixes for GCC-4. This is very un-GNOME like. Though there is a patch in the LFS repo for this, I feel we need to move away from unmaintained packages, when there is a maintained package to replace it. 3. Evince is significantly faster rendering PDF files than was GPdf. To me, Evince is as fast, or faster than XPdf rendering files. Evince is not based on XPdf code, but on the fork of XPdf, the poppler package at http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ 4. Though there was a 2.12.0 release of GGV listed http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/ggv/2.12/ , it is not mentioned in the desktop packages referenced in the GNOME-2.12 series of packages. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.12/ 5. Both GGV and Evince require Ghostscript, so there's no real change in the dependencies. 6. Evince seems to be stable. I used it quite a bit to view many types of documents, including DVI (requires a TeX installation) and DjVu files. I could not see any problems or issues. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 10:20:00 up 17 days, 18:44, 3 users, load average: 0.68, 1.01, 0.76 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
