[haiku-development] Re: CUPS Port?
- From: Michael Pfeiffer <michael.w.pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:58:54 +0200
Am 16.09.2010 um 20:44 schrieb Ithamar R. Adema:
> #3 was my idea of how things should probably be. Printer management
> basically belongs in the print_server, and the interesting thing of CUPS
> isn't really CUPS, but is the printer support. Printer support is
> basically just Foomatic + Ghostscript + additional printing software....
>
> So if you're after more printer support, CUPS is the least of your
> worries, and Foomatic & friends, is what you're interested in!
>
> (If you look in the mailing list archives, I've posted mail with a lot
> of links with the finer details in a previous mail)
IIRC when I mentored the failed HCD 2008 CUPS Port effort, option #3 was also
my preferred one.
How does GutenPrint http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ fit into that picture.
It does add support for more printers.
Bye,
Michael
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