Hi Philipp,

I think you can remove X11 stuff.
>From my impression, now no one uses MacOSX with X11.

Best,
 
From: Philipp Lohmann <philipp.lohm...@sun.com>
Subject: [dev] moving psprint into vcl
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:47:51 +0100

> 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
> 
> -- Someone told me: "Smile and be happy, it could be worse"
> And I smiled and was happy and things became worse.
>       -- Author unknown
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