bundling ghostscript in mingw32 installer
Daniel J Sebald
daniel.sebald at ieee.org
Wed Jun 3 21:36:23 CDT 2009
Benjamin Lindner wrote:
> I tend to vote for bundling it. Pro: pdf printing works
> out-of-the-box with gnuplot which does not have the pdf terminal.
> Con: larger installer, yet another dependency, slightly more work
> when bundling (however, this should be a one-time-only effort, well,
> more or less)
>
> What do you think?
Ben,
I'd vote to leave it out. Since these are system calls to convert PS to PDF, I'd suggest testing during "print -dpdf" for the presence of GhostScript and if not present issue a warning that GhostScript is required for printing PDF files. I say warning, rather than error, because it wouldn't be user friendly to error out of a running script simply because GhostScript is missing.
Dan
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