From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 22 14:58:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA14311 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:58:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA14281; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:58:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id XAA21392; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:45:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by klemm.gtn.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA00415; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:44:00 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:44:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm To: "Julian H. Stacey" cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: print/gs4 In-Reply-To: <199607220613.IAA03837@vector.jhs.no_domain> Message-ID: X-try-apsfilter: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz X-Fax: +49 2137 2018 X-Phone: +49 2137 2020 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 <<<