Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-24 Thread James Cloos
UM == Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org writes: JC Unless, of course, a patch is added which makes «set term pdf» an JC alias for «set term cairopdf». UM Upstream has wisely named the terminal pdfcairo (not cairopdf). UM Therefore, gnuplot's autocompletion will do its job, without any UM

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-23 Thread James Cloos
FR == Francesco R viv...@gmail.com writes: FR Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not generated pdf FR it did generated raster images and wrapped them in a thin pdf layer. FR pdflib is generating vector pdf which is a different thing. Cairo will fall back to an image for anything

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-23 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, James Cloos wrote: Gnuplot’s cairopdf terminal generates vector output. One might argue that it is not optimal, but only because it uses line segments rather than cubic curves to approximate graphs. (Ie, it uses cairo’s lineto rather than curveto functions.) But so do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 02:29:06 Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Jeremy Olexa wrote: The bugs are stacking up[1] and upstream only offers a paid version of pdflib-8[2]. It is my understanding that there is no way for us to package future versions and the bundled libs are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Jeremy Olexa wrote: The bugs are stacking up[1] and upstream only offers a paid version of pdflib-8[2]. It is my understanding that there is no way for us to package future versions and the bundled libs are vulnerable[3]. So, should it be removed? For more info, see

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Mike Frysinger wrote: sci-visualization/gnuplot[pdf] is currently linking against pdflib. I'm going to remove that dependency, because in my understanding, clause 2.1 of the PDFLite license does not allow such linking. (It allows it for programs under an OSI approved

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Mike Frysinger wrote: that might disallow it for binaries, but it doesnt disallow it from being used in ebuilds. same situation as binary kernel drivers -- make it the end user's problem. Why should

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Francesco R
2011/2/22 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Mike Frysinger wrote: that might disallow it for binaries, but it doesnt disallow it from being used in ebuilds. same situation as binary kernel drivers -- make

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Francesco R wrote: Build gnuplot with USE=cairo and you can get PDF output with the pdfcairo terminal. Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not generated pdf it did generated raster images and wrapped them in a thin pdf layer. pdflib is generating vector

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:54:11 Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Francesco R wrote: Build gnuplot with USE=cairo and you can get PDF output with the pdfcairo terminal. Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not generated pdf it did generated raster images

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Dne 22.2.2011 19:20, Mike Frysinger napsal(a): On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:54:11 Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Francesco R wrote: Build gnuplot with USE=cairo and you can get PDF output with the pdfcairo terminal. Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Dne 22.2.2011 19:20, Mike Frysinger napsal(a): Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not generated pdf it did generated raster images and wrapped them in a thin pdf layer. pdflib is generating vector pdf which is a different thing.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Antoni Grzymala
Tomáš Chvátal dixit (2011-02-22, 19:39): On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Francesco R wrote: Build gnuplot with USE=cairo and you can get PDF output with the pdfcairo terminal. Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not generated pdf it did generated raster images and wrapped them in a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Dne 22.2.2011 19:20, Mike Frysinger napsal(a): Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not generated pdf it did generated raster images and wrapped them in a thin pdf

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Matt Turner wrote: Then please say that to begin with instead of something snooty like You should check again. Sorry, but I don't see what would be snooty about it. That was not at all my intention, and I apologise if it came across like that. Francesco's statement was

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 15:18:18 Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Matt Turner wrote: Then please say that to begin with instead of something snooty like You should check again. Sorry, but I don't see what would be snooty about it. That was not at all my intention, and I

[gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-21 Thread Jeremy Olexa
The bugs are stacking up[1] and upstream only offers a paid version of pdflib-8[2]. It is my understanding that there is no way for us to package future versions and the bundled libs are vulnerable[3]. So, should it be removed? For more info, see the tracker bug for its removal[1], there are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-21 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 00:32:52 Jeremy Olexa wrote: The bugs are stacking up[1] and upstream only offers a paid version of pdflib-8[2]. It is my understanding that there is no way for us to package future versions and the bundled libs are vulnerable[3]. So, should it be removed? For