gs5.xx (was bitmap copies of plots)

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On 5 Oct 1999, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> rossini@biostat.washington.edu (A.J. Rossini) writes:
> 
> >     >> >
> >     >> > (5.50 is much better than 5.10, and 6.0 is imminent: 5.94 is
> >     >> > in test)
> >     >>
> >     >> ...but 5.10 is the one that still ships with RedHat (newer ones
> >     >> are not GPL yet, I presume). Installed 6.1 yesterday, so I
> >     >> should know.
> > 
> > There are Debian packages... one of the good reasons to use Debian
> > :-).
> > 
> > But seriously, alien would import it, or I'm sure someone must have
> > done a contributed rpm for it?
> 
> 
> Sure,
> 
> -----
> [pd@blueberry pd]$ rpmfind --latest ghostscript
> Installing ghostscript will require 4078 KBytes
> 
> ### To Transfer:
> ftp://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/linux/mirror/ftp.redhat.com/contrib/hurricane/i386/ghostscript-5.50-3.i386.rpm
> Do you want to download these files to /tmp [Y/n/a] ? : n

(There are gs5.93 rpms too.)
 
> However, the point was that we need to be a little careful when
> relying on non-free (or semi-free) items, because they don't travel on
> CD releases, etc. 

Right. I appreciated that. My point is that you may not be able use
dev2bitmap as a PDF driver without using GhostScript 6.0 or pre-test,
unless you restrict what you plot.  GNU-licensed gs6.xx is a year away (it
says in the pre-test). So either you accept the shackles or you get
inferior plots.

Unfortunately Aladdin and FSF seem to be having a spat, which is why
5.94 was put out with support for linking in readline removed.

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