From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 6 00:49:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA00261 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 00:49:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA00239 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 00:48:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from potok@friko.onet.pl) Received: from friko.onet.pl (friko.onet.pl [194.204.191.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA22842 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 00:48:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from ovita.free.box (ppp-cen189.opole.tpnet.pl [194.204.146.189]) by friko.onet.pl (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA32169; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 09:43:24 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19980206052332.9601.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 09:31:25 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ovita Nutricia Poland From: Mariusz Potocki To: mark thompson Subject: RE: why so many ghostscript Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On 06-Feb-98 mark thompson wrote: >Why are there three versions of ghostscript in the ports? In particular, >is this because nobody wants to delete 2.6.2 and re-verify those things >(like hylafax) that depend on it - or - are people nervous that 4.03 is >not necessarilly an improvement in all cases? > >I ask because i have had to hack a thing or two in 2.6.2 (notably to >allow my windows machine to print via samba). At this point, i am >thinking that maybe it is time for me to upgrade (but i wouldn't want to >break hylafax). Sigh. > >-mark IMHO it's because of licensing. Alladin software changed it some time ago. Mariusz "verba volant, scripta manent"