[Gimp-print-devel] configure stuff

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

OK, I think I've figured out how to handle Gimp 1.0.  If anyone has
this installed, please give it a try.  It should work to merely

aclocal;autoconf;automake

followed by

./configure
make
make install

identically to Gimp 1.0.

If this all works, I'd REALLY like to do a 3.1.0 (developer) release
soon, so that the Gimp 1.0 folks can get off the ground.  Right now it
eats excessive memory (although it doesn't actually seem to leak), but
that will get fixed fairly shortly.  That aside, how would people feel
about doing a release this week, even though the new Epson printers
don't work?  Is there any update on the PCL driver?  What about the
Canon driver?

It would also be neat if someone else feels like trying the
Ghostscript driver.  As I said last night (to the gimp-print-devel
list, at any rate), the Ghostscript driver does actually seem to work,
although it's extremely slow.  It doesn't seem to be particularly hard
to install from the directions (no harder than I'd expect any other
Ghostscript driver to be).  For now, to create the full Ghostscript
driver, you must

make ghost

after running configure (when we do a release, that won't be
necessary; the make dist that builds the release tarball will take
care of that).  That will populate the Ghost subdirectory with
everything you need.

I might try building it into Ghostscript 6.0, although that can't be
distributed due to license conflict (note that I am *not* the original
author of the print plugin, so I can't relicense it, and to tell the
truth I'd rather keep it GPL'ed myself).

We're woefully short on documentation in here.  Anybody feel like
taking a crack at it?

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