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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Dmitry Timoshkov" <dmitry AT baikal DOT ru>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:11:44 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dmitry Timoshkov" <dmitry AT baikal DOT ru>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer


> "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com> 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).

Rob


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