Re: There is an update to gl2ps available

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 09/02/2012 02:31 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> > On 09/02/2012 01:16 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> > > Anyone have time to test this release and submit a changeset?
> > >
> > >         http://geuz.org/gl2ps/
> > >
> > > Ben
> >
> > A recursive diff on the 1.3.6 and 1.3.7 source trees show mainly differences in 
> > documentation and copyright.  The following is the only consequential change:
> >
> > address@hidden gl2ps]$ diff -ur gl2ps-1.3.6-source/ gl2ps-1.3.7-source/
> > diff -ur gl2ps-1.3.6-source/CMakeLists.txt gl2ps-1.3.7-source/CMakeLists.txt
> > --- gl2ps-1.3.6-source/CMakeLists.txt   2011-08-14 12:15:31.000000000 -0500
> > +++ gl2ps-1.3.7-source/CMakeLists.txt   2012-09-02 04:07:33.000000000 -0500
> > @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> > #  GL2PS, an OpenGL to PostScript Printing Library
> > -#  Copyright (C) 1999-2011 C. Geuzaine
> > +#  Copyright (C) 1999-2012 C. Geuzaine
> > #
> > #  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> > #  modify it under the terms of either:
> > @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
> >
> > set(GL2PS_MAJOR_VERSION 1)
> > set(GL2PS_MINOR_VERSION 3)
> > -set(GL2PS_PATCH_VERSION 6)
> > +set(GL2PS_PATCH_VERSION 7)
> > set(GL2PS_EXTRA_VERSION "" CACHE STRING "GL2PS extra version string")
> >
> > set(GL2PS_VERSION "${GL2PS_MAJOR_VERSION}.${GL2PS_MINOR_VERSION}")
> > @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
> >      set_target_properties(shared PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-DGL2PSDLL 
> > -DGL2PSDLL_EXPORTS")
> >    endif(MSVC)
> >
> > -  install(TARGETS lib shared DESTINATION lib)
> > +  install(TARGETS lib shared DESTINATION lib${LIB_SUFFIX})
> > endif(OPENGL_FOUND)
> >
> > if(WIN32)
> >
> >
> > Although I did send an email to the discussion list about the "index" shadowing 
> > problem, nothing has changed to address that:
> >
> > http://www.geuz.org/pipermail/gl2ps/2012/thread.html
> >
> > Dan
>
>
> My guess is that if you generate and test a patch, Christophe would be happy to 
> apply it.

I can do that and attach it to a follow up of my first post on GL2PS list.


> The LIB_SUFFIX change made me wonder if gl2ps is now available via the various 
> package managers.  I checked Fink and MacPorts on MacOSX.  It is not yet 
> available for Fink (although that should be easy to do).  It is available from 
> MacPorts.  I did a quick Google, it appears to be available for Debian.  Might 
> we soon want to unbundle gl2ps and make it a dependency?

There's no build script for gl2ps.  Is it bundled as a lib-file?  Or as 
C that must be included somehow?

Dan