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Re: CUPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Feb 16 07:44:42 2012
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:44:34 -0500
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To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
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Having read both posts, I don't think we need to care, and here's why:
- Browsing was always terrible in our environment.
- We now use a single LPD queue that mostly "just works". It's possible we'll lose when they drop support for PPDs, but a) we can lean on the vendor to speak IPP; b) we can maybe still use the existing PPDs if we ship them ourselves; c) There will have to be _some_ way for non-IPP printers to make use of things like duplexers, paper trays, etc.
Now it's possible that end-users are relying on these features for their USB-attached inkjet or for local advertisements of printers within a lab or FSILG or something. However, that is not our problem. If the upstream OS is removing features, it's not our job to add them back (our continued compilation of LPRng notwithstanding). It _is_ our job to decide when the upstream OS has jumped the shark and we should switch to another, but that's orthogonal to this discussion.
-Jon
On Feb 16, 2012, at 4:41 AM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> Via Reddit, Apple is dropping a bunch of CUPS features like browsing and PPDs that aren't used in OS X:
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> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-January/161306.html
> http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2012/002412.html
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> We will probably manage to not care because the Linux packagers are good at what they do and at picking up maintenance for things like this, but it's potentially worth someone taking a brief look at.
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> I wonder if it's worth being on the printing-architecture list.
>
> --
> Geoffrey Thomas
> geofft@mit.edu
