espgs <-> gpl-ghostscript ?

Hi,


> Good to know - we just have not yet noticed :-) In the past we had to ship
> the espgs by default for CUPS to work at all.

> According to your information we could then remove the espgs and just
> enable the gpl-ghostscript by default if cups still works in this case.

> Maybe you want to provide a patch switching over?

The fact is that I am using gpl-ghostscript quite rarely for cups, for me
it works for some PS-PDF related tasks. So I would not dare to state it
does work definitely for cups. At the same time according to the website
it should, since espgs is merged into gpl-ghostscript in 2006. On 14th
March 2007 last espgs (v8.5.14) was released. Since then in August 2007
"The Grand Unified Ghostscript Officially Released: GPL Ghostscript 8.60"
(actually already 8.63) and it was recommended for use in Linux
distributions.

So even if there may be some regressions in gpl-ghostscript with CUPS not
yet raised, espgs is closed, and all its developers are working on
gpl-ghostscript instead. So gpl-ghostscript is the package to focus on I
am sure about that.

best regards,

helasz