From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jan 9 5:25:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8DBD37B401 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 05:25:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes.tubas.net (dsl092-164-043.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.164.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE43B43F1E for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 05:25:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstailey@speakeasy.net) Received: from speakeasy.net (localhost.trickster.gods [127.0.0.1]) by hermes.tubas.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h09DPKYD044012; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 08:25:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from kstailey@speakeasy.net) Message-ID: <3E1D7840.1060708@speakeasy.net> Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 08:25:20 -0500 From: Ken Stailey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021205 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: KATO Tsuguru , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/46435: Update port: print/ghostscript-afpl to 8.00 (fix ports/46146) References: <3E1BA6FD.4090205@speakeasy.net> <20030109192030.6cd7cd1f.tkato@prontomail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org KATO Tsuguru wrote: >On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 23:20:13 -0500 >Ken Stailey wrote: > > > >>WHY IS THE STP DRIVER NOT IN THE PORTS TREE BY DEFAULT??? >> >>WHY IS THERE NO OPTION TO USE THE STP DRIVER IF IT IS STILL A >>REQUIREMENT FOR MANY PRINTERS??? >> >> > >Unfortunately, as far as I see, STP driver is imcompatible >with AFPL-gs 8.00 at source-code level. IJS driver and >ijsgimpprint (included in print/gimp-print port) would be >the most appropriate upgrade path. > >If you still have to continue using STP driver under the >current state, I guess the one-and-only choice is to use >GNU-gs. > > > > But: # pwd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu # sed 1,/DJ970_SRCS=/d Makefile | head -10 # Gimp-Print - very high quality driver for Epson, HPs,... # http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ # # NOTE: # Support of stp driver interface has already been discontinued, and using # ijs driver with ijsgimpprint (part of print/gimp-print port) is highly # recommended. # # For that reason, integlation of stp driver is disabled by default. So what is the upgrade path? Throw out my printer which used to work fine until the ports "upgrade"? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message