[haiku-gsoc] Re: Status update
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-gsoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:51:34 +0200 CEST
> As of cups-port I'm in the process of writing PPD parser and
> configuration UI (In fact I'm continuing work that Michael started
> some time ago). We (me and Michael) had a long discussion about port
> direction,and what we mainly concluded is that we should not port
> whole cups but just port filters and do the tighter integration with
> Haiku. I really wanted to do a blog post about the design decisions
> (will do later today or in the morning). After finishing PPD parser
> and UI, next step would be optimisation of current libprint
> PostScript
> driver (to have more compact output), actually port the filters, and
> implement cups-raster format support so we can use native cups
> drivers
> too.
Hopefully doing so will avoid having 100MB of files installed just for
cups as was done in Zeta :)
François.
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