[haiku-gsoc] Re: Status update

  • From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-gsoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:16:50 +0200

François Revol wrote:
> > 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 :)

+1. I think it's good that you guys try to pick only those parts that make 
sense.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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