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release v1.5

I changed the source to expand the EPS file in place, and defined the --defereps option to instead let the PS interpreter do that later.
This should allow network printers to be used, at the cost of a larger .ps file size (so what?). I don't know if there's much reason to keep the --defereps option, but it's there for now anyway.

Added the Avery:5267 format per Mihai Ibanescu's (Misa) contribution, but haven't tested it yet.

Deleted the cardstock-devel mailing list as overkill. The -users and -announce lists should be sufficient.

I guess I should change the release tarball to .tar.gz instead of .tgz, as the former seems to be preferred by the SF system. Next time.

Wrote up a README.

As mentioned in the README, I'm not sure how best to handle version numbers for releases. So far I've just used the CVS version number, and I suppose that's sufficient for a project of this scale. However, it wouldn't work if there were additional files in the release. I probably need to go read up on this somewhere, in a HOWTO or something. I think it might have made more sense (perhaps) to number the releases starting at major version 0, as seems conventional; however, despite
cardstock having had little exposure or in-use testing and debugging, it is a simple thing, and it works (I think), so version 1 seems sensible.

Back on the expand-in-place topic, it occurred to me that the shell to run pwd may not work under Windows. It's only needed if the --defereps option is selected. The whole thing would probably be simpler and better if I just dropped that, and just expand the file and be done with it. I'll consider that for later.

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Ken Irving <jkirving@mosquitonet.com>

Posted by Ken Irving 2001-05-09

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