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

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Thu Apr 21 17:52:04 PDT 2005


On Thursday 21 April 2005 20:39, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
> > 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 can live with either way - I lean towards leaving it in 6.9 mostly
> because there's less work, but also because it's 7.0 where we should break
> things, not 6.9.    (Of course, almost no one will notice this being
> broken.   The only thing I know of that still uses DPS is Sun's CDE image
> viewer, and that uses the code Sun got from Adobe.   Are there any useful
> DPS applications still out there to worry about?)

Gyve was a vector graphics program that closed shop in 2002.  Gnustep 
abandoned DPS about the same time.  That's about all I can come up with in 
the first thirty-odd google pages.

- ajax
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