On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:02:50 +0100, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Jonas Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2007/3/23, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Warning: I think GNU Ghostscript is 8.55 and the non-GNU one has >> > numbered itself as 8.56 even though the previous release was 8.54 - I >> > can't remember how gobo handles this at present. Is it easy to select >> > between them? >> > >> If I'm not mistaken we decided that the GNU version should just be >> called Ghostscript, while the non-GNU should have its license >> prepended and is therefore called AFPL-Ghostscript. I'm pretty sure >> this is the case. > > OK, I thought it was something like that. > >> About versions, according to this page: >> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897 the AFPL >> version is still on 8.54 while the GNU version is 8.56 > > Sorry, that looks like the artofcode GPL version, not the GNU version. > The artofcode maintainers recently stopped releasing under the AFPL. > See http://www.ghostscript.com/awki/Ghostscript > Why make things easy. Thanks for helping me keep track of all branches of Ghostscript. :) > GNU Ghostscript is currently on version 8.55 from > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ghostscript/ with a web site at > http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/ > > Please rename the 8.56 recipe and package to artofcode-Ghostscript or > GPL-Ghostscript, else we have a name collision on GNU's next release > or a version-arms-race. > Well, since GNU Ghostscript call themself GNU-Ghostscript, would it be wrong to name that recipe to just GNU-Ghostscript and keep Ghostscript as the name for the artofcode GPL-version? Or should they be named GNU-Ghostscript and GPL-Ghostscript respectively (like that wouldn't be confusing). -- /Jonas Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
