Re: Switching to Artifex Ghostscript

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 03:06:41PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:
> > Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Both programs are distributed under the AGPL, as far as I can tell. But
> >> Artifex Ghostscript is actively developed, which I think is very
> >> important for C software that is designed to handle untrusted input.
> >
> > Thanks for bringing this up. GNU Ghostscript seemed to go
> > mostly-inactive[0] after Artifex changed to AGPL in 2013[1]. The latest
> > "upstream" release is 9.21[2], we have 9.14.0 (from 2014!).
> >
> > I'm in favor of switching to the active fork.
> 
> Me too.  In fact, I once tried to package Artifex Ghostscript, but
> failed in the attempt to unbundle libraries.

I'll try this in the next few days. If you still have your old attempt,
I'd be happy to see it :)

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