[tex-live] New GNU ghostscript release

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

This just appeared on the ghostscript developers digest today:

>> ...
>> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:51:58 -0700
>> From: rillian <rillian@telus.net>
>> To: gs-devel@ghostscript.com
>> Subject: [gs-devel] GNU Ghostscript 7.05 release
>> 
>> After over a week of testing, I'm pleased to announce the availability 
>> of the final tarball for GNU Ghostscript 7.05. This will become the 
>> official release source once we've sanity checked and built binaries for 
>> supported platforms. I'll do a more formal announcement at that time.
>> 
>> In the meantime, you can get source here:
>> 
>>         http://casper.ghostscript.com/~giles/ghostscript-7.05.tar.bz2
>>         http://casper.ghostscript.com/~giles/ghostscript-7.05.tar.gz
>> 
>> Or from cvs with the 'gs7_05' tag.
>> 
>> New since rc3:
>> 
>> * More license fixes courtesy of Brian Youmans at the FSF.
>> * A rewritten (and working) ps2epsi from Ray.
>> * various additional bug fixes
>> 
>> Thanks to everyone who tested,
>>   -r
>> ...

At last, GNU ghostscript is much closer to Aladdin ghostscript; the
current developers release of the latter is 7.20.

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