[haiku-development] Re: GSoC Project - Continue the CUPS port
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:33:08 +0200
"Ithamar R. Adema" <ithamar.adema@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Besides all this there is a certain amount of cleanup to do in the
> current printing architecture, as there's a whole lot of shared code
> floating about at different places in the Haiku source tree that
> should,
> IMNSHO should be integrated into the print_server. A discussion on
> this,
> especially wether or not we want to keep R5 backwards compatibility
> on
> printer driver/transport add on level would be appropriate (dropping
> that would make it possible to have a much cleaner addon structure
> for
> the print_server, making all this much easier).
>
> I was planning to discuss a lot of this @ BeGeistert, but an earlier
> discussion on the list wouldn't hurt either I guess...
Then bring it on! :-)
If we get CUPS, I don't think keeping backwards compatibility is
important at all, BTW.
However, I'm not really familiar with the current architecture, so I
probably don't see the improvements a new one would give us :-)
Bye,
Axel.
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