Bonjour,

Je vous fais suivre un mail important qui conerne le futur de la version Mac OS X.

Philipp Lohmann et Herbert Duerr proposent de faire une modification importante avec l'impression postscript, en déplaçant le code du module psprint vers le module vcl. L'effet de bord, c'est que la version X11 ne fonctionnera plus, en tout cas pour l'impression. Il ajoute les autres raisons auxquelles j'adhère moi aussi (voir l'enfilade sur les listes concernées).

Si vous souhaitez commenter, poser des questions, je vous invite à le faire sur la liste [email protected] , sinon sur la [email protected]

En vous souhaitant une bonne année, et mes meilleurs voeux pour 2009 :)

Eric Bachard


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Hi all,

for various reasons we (hdu and me in this case) would like to move the code now residing in psprint into vcl.

reasons to do so:
- font subsetting code is in psprint and on many platforms linked statically into vcl anyway. - future CUPS versions will migrate from PostScript to PDF as their primary spool file format. moving psprint to vcl will make it easier to do this migration in OOo, too.
- vcl is psprint's only customer anyway.
- there is code duplication between psprint and vcl currently that can be removed after this changed.

However this will mean there will be a CWS that will make this migration and changes to psprint in other CWS will be moot (see the discussion about svn not warning about committing to moved files). So consider yourself warned that we will announce a time at which no changes to psprint should be made until a certain CWS is integrated (not that there are that many people doing that anyway :-) )

At the same time we could do a little cleanup and first thing coming to mind is the MACOSX specific code which could be removed. That would however mean that the old MacOSX X11 port would not really work anymore (at least WRT to printing). So I want to ask: do we really continue to have the X11 Mac port in the 3.0 line ? Are there any compelling arguments for this ?

Kind regards, pl

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