Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:44:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: print/gs4 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960722233225.312A-100000@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199607220613.IAA03837@vector.jhs.no_domain>
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On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > cd print/gs4 > make install > does: > install -c -m 755 gs /usr/local/bin/gs > So our GNU version of gs gets trampled by the commercial Aladdin gs, > I'd rather expected it to be installed as bin/gs4.... Ok, let's discuss that now, but ... I was aware of this ... The reason for me not to change the default path and program name (/usr/local/bin/gs) was, that all ghostscript ports in the past did it the same way and I didn't want to break something ... For example ghostview looks for /usr/local/bin/gs and _not_ gs4 or whatelse ... I think, that the ordinary ghostscript user doesn't look or differentiate between different copyright (GNU / Aladdin) I think the user only wants the latest and greatest version. It's _not_ like in tcl / tk, where you sometimes need older program versions, since it's not fully backward compatible ... I vote for _not_ to differentiate in different gs versions: /usr/local/bin/gs /usr/local/bin/gs3 /usr/local/bin/gs4 Say NO ;-) Any comments ?! Surely some ?! Andreas /// -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<
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