[Gs-devel] Freeze coming up for new Ghostscript features

[Raph Levien]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 05:01:00PM +1000, Russell Lang wrote:
> Raph,
> I have currently submitted to gs-code-review patches for
>   Windows & OS/2 code cleanup
>   replace exit() with return.
>   stdio using callouts
> I am awaiting responses to these.

Yes. I'm working on my code-review backlog now, and will get to these
soon. Sorry for the delay.

> 
> I have two more changes to send.
>   Put all stdout/stderr access through a single function 
>   to allow redirection.
>   New API (DLL/shared object) interface.
> The latter is ready, but depends on the former.  
> I need to write the stdout/stderr code, but it is straightforward.  
> Essentially it removes nearly all references to stdout or stderr and 
> puts all output through functions outprintf() or errprintf().
> 
> I will endeavour to get these to you within the next week.
> 
> I really do want these changes to be part of the 7.0 release.
> It will improve the Ghostscript interface on a number of platforms,
> particularly Windows, Linux and Mac.

Definitely. I've always considered the DLL updates part of the 7.0
release. I should have mentioned the DLL project in my announcement.

Raph