Hi all,
for various reasons we (hdu and me in this case) would like to move the
code now residing in psprint into vcl.
reasons to do so:
- font subsetting code is in psprint and on many platforms linked
statically into vcl anyway.
- future CUPS versions will migrate from PostScript to PDF as their
primary spool file format. moving psprint to vcl will make it easier to
do this migration in OOo, too.
- vcl is psprint's only customer anyway.
- there is code duplication between psprint and vcl currently that can
be removed after this changed.
However this will mean there will be a CWS that will make this migration
and changes to psprint in other CWS will be moot (see the discussion
about svn not warning about committing to moved files). So consider
yourself warned that we will announce a time at which no changes to
psprint should be made until a certain CWS is integrated (not that there
are that many people doing that anyway :-) )
At the same time we could do a little cleanup and first thing coming to
mind is the MACOSX specific code which could be removed. That would
however mean that the old MacOSX X11 port would not really work anymore
(at least WRT to printing). So I want to ask: do we really continue to
have the X11 Mac port in the 3.0 line ? Are there any compelling
arguments for this ?
Kind regards, pl
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