2009/417 [Deliver libgs.so shared library and Ghostscript header files]

[Glenn Skinner]

    Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:07:04 -0400
    From: Sebastien Roy <Sebastien.Roy at sun.com>
    Subject: Re: Deliver libgs.so shared library and Ghostscript
	    header files [PSARC/2009/417 FastTrack timeout 08/05/2009]

    On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 13:17 -0700, Daniel Hain wrote:
    > Sebastien Roy wrote:
    > >
    > >>
    > >>   4.5. Interfaces
    > >>
    > >>       4.5.1  Exported Interfaces:
    > >>           Interface                              Status            Description
    > >>           -------                                -----             ---------
    ...
    > >>        /usr/bin/gsx                              Volatile          GTK+ frontend to libgs.so
    > >>        /usr/bin/gsc                              Volatile          command-line frontend to libgs.so

    ...
    What is the intended use of /usr/bin/gsx and /usr/bin/gsc, then?
    Are these implementation details of the API?  If so, they should
    be Project Private.

No, that doesn't work.  If they're Project Private, they should not
live in /usr/bin.

It comes down to the question of whether or not people are expected to
invoke thse utilities directly.  If so, then they can't be Project
Private.  If not, then they don't belong in /usr/bin.

I could go either way as far as the choice above ic concerned, but not
with the middle ground of Project Private things in /usr/bin.

		-- Glenn