Re: 4.4 - Nearing the finish line

[sfeam (E. Merritt) <eam...@gm...>]

On Sunday 07 March 2010, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > > I have made those changes to INSTALL and the makefiles for mgw and cygwin.
> > > I will also disable the HAVE_PWD_H option because
> > > (1) Manfred Schwarb has reported here that it causes static build problems
> > > (2) Daniel Loeb has reported on the newsgroup that it introduces privacy issues
> > > (3) It seems like a totally unnecessary bell (or is it a whistle?) that in any case
> > >     is used only by the PostScript and PDF terminal output 
> 
> Well, now it seems that now it contains
> SDict begin [
>   /Author (mikulik)
> instead of the previous
>   /Author (Petr Mikulik)
> Is this intended? Shouldn't the /Author line be completely avoided?

I don't know.
There were two issues.

The static build issue was caused by a call to getpwnam(), which is now gone.

I suppose listing the user name is still an issue if you want complete
anonymity, but it no longer includes GECOS information like phone number
and address so I think it is not so much a privacy concern.