Cygwin Uploaders: This is the first ghostscript release from a new maintainer (James R. Phillips).
Files for uploading are located at: ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/cygwin/release/ghostscript/ghostscript-8.50-1-src.tar.bz2 ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/cygwin/release/ghostscript/ghostscript-8.50-1.tar.bz2 ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/cygwin/release/ghostscript/ghostscript-base/ghostscript-base-8.50-1.tar.bz2 ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/cygwin/release/ghostscript/ghostscript-x11/ghostscript-x11-8.50-1.tar.bz2 I have maintained the packaging approach of the previous maintainers, which is basically "Method 1" per the cygwin.com website. The only significant change I made was to move the source patch out of the CYGWIN-PATCHES subdirectory in the source tree, and move it into the top-level directory, to avoid problems with the patch referring to itself. At some point in the future it would be good to move the ghostscript packaging to "Method 2". I have used the unofficial version of upset at http://cygwinports.dotsrc.org to set up ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/cygwin with the proper mirror structure to allow installation and test of this new version using setup.exe. Some very basic testing following local installation reveals no issues. I don't claim to have tested this comprehensively, but it does seem to work properly, e.g., from the command-line as well as with xfig and epstool. In proper accordance with cygwin policy, the "setup.ini" and "setup.bz2" files, along with the "release" subdirectory, will be removed from ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/cygwin/ when I am notified the upload to cygwin.com is completed. I have a release announcement prepared which I will send to cygwin-announcements at that time. Thanks, Jim Phillips
