[bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org: [Bug 3080] libdps and libdpstkare obsolete and should be removed]

[Adam Jackson]

On Thursday 21 April 2005 17:51, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> > Closed source libraries have no bearing on us: what Adobe does with DPS
> > has about as much bearing on us as DirectX, as long as they're not
> > releasing the source.
>
> Not that it matters, but what's in the tree now - the client side, did
> come from Adobe releasing the client-side source years ago.  You'll notice
> their copyright in many of the files.    It was the server side, with the
> actual PostScript engine, that was kept closed-source.

I think Juliusz wrote a server side too, but it depended on GhostScript and 
thus the GPL boogeyman kept it out of xf86.

> As for DPS, as I noted in the bug, I think it's entirely reasonable to
> simply add "DPS is gone" to the list of incompatible changes in the 7.0
> release.   That makes more sense to me than doing useless work to
> modularize and then removing in a 7.x release that people would be less
> likely to expect incompatible changes in.

My reading of what you said in #3080 was that the DPS bits should be disabled 
by default in the imakery in 6.9 and simply not brought across to 7.0; 
whereas this sounds like it's in favor of dropping it for both release trees.  
I slightly prefer dropping it entirely, for consistency with the stated goal 
of same source in different build systems.  It's about the same amount of 
work for me either way though.  So do we feel strongly that it should be kept 
but disabled in 6.9?

- ajax
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