[7271] in SIPB bug reports
Re: no jpeg device in gs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Mon May 10 14:18:09 1999
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Cc: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko), belmonte@MIT.EDU (Matthew Belmonte),
gnu@MIT.EDU (gnu locker maintainers),
bug-sipb@MIT.EDU (sipb locker maintainers)
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 10 May 1999 14:12:01 -0400
In-Reply-To: Sam Hartman's message of 09 May 1999 23:12:10 -0400
Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU> writes:
> One might ask why we don't build a non-GNU gs with a reasonable set
> of output devices if the gnu one doesn't support common graphics
> formats like jpeg.
Once term ends, I plan to Deal With Ghostscript, and do the Right
Thing.
I am someone opposed to putting the non-GNU Ghostscript in the GNU
locker, but if there are important features that we want that are not
yet in the GNU release, then I will deal with putting the other
version in a different locker.
Thomas
