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Cygwin path unixlike and the ability to use GS in scripts are crucial at least for `teTeX' if one want manipulate figures (for example): futhermore is hard to say what is crucial or not for an arbitrary user. As other basic tools, GS is needed to a get a good unixlike environment. Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: > > "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:15:47PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > >Anyone interested in being the new ghostscript maintainer? > > > > > > > > > >The old one is too busy currently. > > > > > > > > > >Send me private email (?!?) if you're interested. > > > > > > > > No takers? Isn't anyone even curious about this? I'll have to remove > > > > ghostscript from the distribution if we can't get a maintainer. > > > > > > Since ghostscript is fairly well supported for native win32 builds > > (binaries > > > could be found quite easy too) and presumely doesn't use any unix specific > > > functionality, it could be possible to not provide it with Cygwin at all. > > > > In fact it didn't use to be provided. Users asked for it. Check the > > archives. (Native ghostscript doesn't support cygwin paths for starters && > > what about X support). > > Well, cygwin path is not the crucial argument for a user working in the win32 > environment, is it? An X support is not so critical either, while we are not > talking about remote displays. > -- > Dmitry. > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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