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bundling ghostscript in mingw32 installer
From: |
Benjamin Lindner |
Subject: |
bundling ghostscript in mingw32 installer |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:29:53 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) |
Hello list,
As the print.m script has nicely be tuned up for the 3.2 release it now
supports printing to pdf via ps and ps->pdf using ghostscript.
This also works well under windows.
The question for me arises: should a ghostscript binary be bundled with
the mingw32 installer?
As there is a GPL version of ghostscript available, I guess it should
not cause licensing issues if a binary version is packed into the
installer. Building ghostscript from source under windows is not really
straightforward from what I saw looking at the build process. So I'd
prefer to pack a binary version, if any.
Or it is simply not bundled into the installer, but the user is advised
to get it and install it sperately if printing to pdf is required.
I tend to vote for bundling it.
Pro: pdf printing works out-of-the-box with gnuplot which does not have
the pdf terminal.
Con: larger installer, yet another dependency, slightly more work when
bundling (however, this should be a one-time-only effort, well, more or
less)
What do you think?
benjamin
- bundling ghostscript in mingw32 installer,
Benjamin Lindner <=