On 2024/07/15 21:29, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 03:30:34PM +0200, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 10:15:10PM +0900, SASANO Takayoshi wrote:
> > Not sure what you folks mean with "another package".  A subpackage?
> > Or another port, maybe?  There are already 3 FLAVORS in the
> > ghostscript/gnu port and I'm not sure this would mix well with
> > MULTI_PACKAGES.  Another port would probably need some tweaks for the
> > shared libs.  Just putting everything inside the same package seems
> > easier.
> 
> Slightly offtopic, but do we still need ghostscripts a4 and no_x11
> FLAVORS?
> 
> I remember that someone asked me about the a4 FLAVOR a long time
> ago, and there still are some source files with #ifdef A4:
> 
> ./base/gxdevice.h
> ./contrib/gdevln03.c
> ./contrib/gdevxes.c
> ./contrib/japanese/gdevmjc.c
> ./devices/gdevescp.c
> 
> Ignoring the contrib stuff, base/gxdevice.h uses the #ifdef A4 for
> deriving some *default* macros, so I assume that thos values can
> be overridden by command line switches. And devices/gdevescp.c uses
> #ifdef A4 for Stylus 800 printers, which may date back to 1993. No
> idea wether this printer series is still relevant today. IMHO, the
> a4 FLAVOR could be dropped; maybe switching the default to -DA4
> secretly, like we did more than a decade ago for another port, after
> which not a single person complained ;-)

I wouldn't complain about A4 default ;-)

> For no_x11: it isn't really useful *unless* you don't install the
> x*.tgz install sets. I don't know who still doesn't install them
> today, even on smallish devices.

agreed.