Volunteer to upgrade GhostScript

[Marius Schamschula]

Mojca,

Indeed this one is a mess. I ran into two problems:

1) The move of mapping-resources-pdf files to github.
   Never mind the un-versioned files, and the ?raw=true appended to the download URL:
   The MacPorts extract phase sure doesn’t like to have .tar.gz files side by side with .zip files. 
   I worked around this by repackaging both files as .tar.gz archives, and putting them on my server.

2) There is a build issue with zlib. ghostscript needs the source, not the libraries. Fortunately, the included version of zlib is current.

My Portfile for ghostscript 9.16 is @

http://git.hmug.org/ports/blob/master/print/ghostscript/Portfile

Predictably this update will break a number of ports. In my case I had to rebuild

gimp2, ImageMagick, and libspectre

There likely to be many more…

On May 13, 2015, at 9:59 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there any volunteer to upgrade GhostScript?
> 
> I'm unable to upgrade some of my packages that are incompatible with < 9.15.
> 
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 2:30 PM, John Bowman wrote:
>> 
>> Unfortunately the ghostscript authors made the mistake of introducing a new
>> eps2write driver, with less functionality, and then quickly deprecating the
>> old epswrite driver one. This means that there is no way to be compatible
>> with both old and new ghostscript versions so everyone is forced to upgrade
>> their ghostscript.
> 
> 
> I started working on an update, but It's too complex to do it fast and
> I'm catching other deadlines.
> 
> Among others I was stuck with mappingresources4pdf_2unicode which are
> now being unversioned zip files on github
>   https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/mapping-resources-pdf
> (and please don't ask me why the weird packaging)
> 
> I'm not sure if it is possible to store
>    /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/ghostscript/ghostscript-9.16.tar.gz
>    /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/ghostscript/<tag>/mappingresources4pdf_2unicode.zip
>    /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/ghostscript/<tag>/mappingresources4pdf_other.zip
> somehow or use some other trick.
> 
> Thank you,
>    Mojca
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Marius
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