[indiana-discuss] [Fwd: Re: missing packages]

[Alan Coopersmith]

Moinak Ghosh wrote:
>    Ugh! That is the Display Postscript extension library long since
>    obsoleted in X.org and the opensource DPS project essentially
>    dead. However SUN is still shipping it's own DPS libs though I
>    believe that might possibly be obsoleted eventually (Alan Coopersmith
>    can clarify better).

The extension will be removed with Xsun, but the client library probably has
to stay for a very long time to support old Java releases like this.

>    I do not have libdps available on BeleniX though
>    this looks like something to get working for the short term to support
>    older apps.

There should be very few apps using it - Java, the pre-docs.sun.com Answerbook
viewer, and imagetool/sdtimage are the main ones I know of.

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