Re: Windows SP1 bug and ghostscript-9.0

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 08:09:53PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> In trying to nail down the notorious #1562, I started a ghostscript-9.0
> branch in GUB, which uses ghostscript 9.02, freetype-2.4.4 and includes
> a small ghostscript installer fixlet.
> 
> It would be nice if you could find a time to include these into
> the release branch or master.

Sorry, but I don't think that would be a good idea.  We've just
reached 0 Critical bugs again, so I'll be making a new Release
Candidate (Carl: I can handle the backporting, probably, enjoy
your vacation).  This is not the right time to switch a bunch of
build requirements.  Remember that 2.14.0 is drastically late and
the delay has caused huge problems.

I think the best thing is to get 2.14.0 out now, include a warning
that it doesn't work on windows 7 SP1 but that we're testing a fix
and hope to have a new version out soon.  Then we switch to
ghostscript-9.0 in 2.15.0 and start testing.

Cheers,
- Graham