Re: Switching to Artifex Ghostscript

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 03:06:41PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>> > Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>> >> Both programs are distributed under the AGPL, as far as I can tell. But
>> >> Artifex Ghostscript is actively developed, which I think is very
>> >> important for C software that is designed to handle untrusted input.
>> >
>> > Thanks for bringing this up. GNU Ghostscript seemed to go
>> > mostly-inactive[0] after Artifex changed to AGPL in 2013[1]. The latest
>> > "upstream" release is 9.21[2], we have 9.14.0 (from 2014!).
>> >
>> > I'm in favor of switching to the active fork.
>> 
>> Me too.  In fact, I once tried to package Artifex Ghostscript, but
>> failed in the attempt to unbundle libraries.
>
> I'll try this in the next few days. If you still have your old attempt,
> I'd be happy to see it :)

Unfortunately, I don’t have it any longer.  But some parts of it (like
the trio package) have since been merged.

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Ricardo

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