[open-beos-printing] Re: Updates?

Hi Michael,

> And before we think about implementing it we should finalize R1 first.
> There are some things that should be improved, for example (somewhat
> ordered by priority):

The #1 missing feature is that USB printers support is not complete yet
under Haiku!
As most users who will try to print will have an usb printer, I'll bet
that's our top blocker for R1...

Currently, "USB Port" transport add-on rely on an working
/dev/printer/usb/0 entry, but we don't have, as we don't have any
usb_printer driver under Haiku yet.
Maybe we don't need to write a kernel driver. USB transport add-on could do
all by itself using the userland USB Kit.
But it should be done *somewhere* ;-)

> I would really wish that, if you have the time and motivation, you
> could complete to open tasks first, before you start with the next
> step of defining and implementing an API for R2. This would be more in
> the spirit of Haiku. 

Agreed. 
Plus the discussion show that some evolution is not limited to printing kit
but relate to Translation Kit too.
Which was my point actually: this wider evolution is meat for R2, not R1.

So, let's finish USB printers support first, right.

Bye,
  Philippe.

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