Re: [gnome-print] Filter code for gnome-print

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 22:03, Scott Gifford wrote:
> Chema Celorio <chema@ximian.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 16:49, Scott Gifford wrote:
> > ..snip..
> > >   I've been thinking about this, too.  I'm not sure where the code
> > > went from my Web site, but I'll pull it out tonight or this weekend
> > > and post a new link to it.  I'd love to help get it integrated.
> > 
> > Great!
> 
> OK, I've dug out what I had before, and it's available at:
> 
>     http://www.suspectclass.com/~sgifford/filter/
> 
> I've pulled the latest gnome-print down from CVS, but I'm not sure if
> I should be working on HEAD or on the 1-4 branch?

You should be working on the GNOME 2.0 versions. I don't have plans to
make releases of the gnome 1.4 with new features, only bug fixes.

The downside is that you are going to have to compile the new platform
(at least up to libgnomeprint), let me know if you need help getting
this working, i use the vicious-build-scripts and they work fine for me
but some people jhbuild instead,

> I'd like to get the filter libraries and documentation into CVS and
> get the test program building first.  After that's done and working, I
> can make the changes to actually use these libraries as part of
> gnome-print.
> 
> How does that sound for a strategy?

Sounds good. It should go into libgnomeprint and we should have
regression tests inside libgnomeprint/tests. I've already started a
script for regression tests.

> Should I just enable all of the filters in gnome-print-ps2, or do we
> need a way for users or printer drivers to selectively enable/disable
> them?

For now we hardcode them for the ps2 driver. Lets get something that
works out first, then we can elaborate it further.

> Should I make the changes compile-time options at first, so that
> gnome-print won't be unstable unless people are explicitly trying to
> test this out?

No, don't worry. We are going to be working on a branch anyway. I am
planning of branching soon to start hacking again on big features.

> Who should I coordinate CVS commits with?  Should I post patches here
> first, and get an OK, or just commit when I think things are ready?

Myself please. You can send me patches for the initial commit.

> Thanks!

Great to have you hacking at gnome-print back!

thanks,
Chema