HEADS-UP: Modular X11 (ALL maintainers, please read)

[Charles Wilson]

Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> Igor Peshansky wrote:

>> Yes.  [the] purpose [of nonX gs] is the same as xpm-nox -- to allow rendering postscript
>> to a non-screen device in batch mode.  People who don't have X may still
>> want to do this, for example to convert postscript to PDF.
> 
> Since X11 will now be *modular*, is that such a big deal?  Based on the 
> current ghostscript-8.50 dependecies, the X11 gs should require a total 
> of 6 X11 runtime libraries and libX11-data.
> 
> Since I've packaged the runtime libraries separately from the 
> development libs (i.e. libSM source -> libSM6 runtime and libSM devel 
> and docs), I wouldn't consider this excessive.

You're forgetting one thing: you also MUST have the X-server actually 
running when you invoke the X-based gs, even in batch mode.  I wouldn't 
want my conversion script -- which has *nothing* to do with X -- to fail 
simply because I didn't start the Xserver.

I'd recommend something like a script wrapped around checkX --  but I'd 
have to add checkX to cygutils or something first, instead of packaging 
it with the [not yet approved ITP] for rxvt-unicode-[X|common].

Then again, that gets really unwieldy and kludgy, fast.  Maybe this 
should just be relegated to 'caveat emptor': you want to be sure you're 
using the non-X gs, then call gs-non-x.exe.

--
Chuck