Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <001301c1022e$5bbb0960$c6823bd5@dima> From: "Dmitry Timoshkov" To: "Robert Collins" , References: <20010628221547 DOT A3873 AT redhat DOT com> <20010629174426 DOT C9027 AT redhat DOT com> <02bd01c1020a$19687850$c6823bd5 AT dima> <068c01c1021e$9dccbe80$806410ac AT local> Subject: Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:03:29 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 "Robert Collins" 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/