[Fwd: Re: AW: [Desktop_printing] Role of CUPS and error handling]

[Michael Sweet]

Sorry, forgot to "reply all"...

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Subject: Re: AW: [Desktop_printing] Role of CUPS and error handling
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:46:49 -0400
From: Michael Sweet <mike at easysw.com>
Organization: Easy Software Products
To: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de>
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Johannes Meixner wrote:
> ...
> I cannot imagine any problems regarding usability here.

OK, problems with this approach:

     1. It doesn't work for platforms other than Linux (only Linux
        offers a path-based ldconfig, so other platforms will need
        an install in a standard location)

     2. It doesn't allow for version detection/dependencies; Linux
        distributors ship a wide range of CUPS versions, some of
        which are missing key features that vendors need
        (ppdFindAtribute, and for CUPS 1.2 the cupsBackChannel and
        cupsRasterReadHeader2 functions)

     3. It requires each vendor to develop their own setup
        applications, although this is something we'd be happy to
        do and provide as open source...

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Internet Printing and Publishing Software        http://www.easysw.com