Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > I am sponsoring this fasttrack for the X engineering team and have set > the timeout to one week from today, Thursday, May 14. > > Since the interfaces being removed have been reviewed and imported in > cases reviewed both at PSARC & LSARC, both ARC's are cc'ed, though the > case is submitted to PSARC for review. > > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI > This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems > 1. Introduction > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: > EOF of Xprint > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: > Author: Alan Coopersmith > 1.3 Date of This Document: > 07 May, 2009 > 4. Technical Description > > The X.Org community recently released Xorg server version 1.6. This > version no longer includes the Xprint variant of the X server to generate > output in page description formats like PostScript and PCL and to either > save that to a file or send to the printer via the lp system. X.Org has > also deprecated all of the Xprint client libraries and utilities, and will > not be including them in X11R7.5 or any future releases. > > Xprint was originally created by the X Consortium under contract to the > Open Group to serve as the printing backend for the CDE 2.1 release. > Sun integrated Xprint into Solaris with the upgrade to X11R6.4 in > Solaris 7 11/99, but never integrated most of the CDE or Motif support > to use Xprint.
Sometimes I still wish to know why this was never done - it created a lot more trouble than simply doing the update to CDE2.x ... ;-( > Xprint was never widely adopted outside of CDE and Motif, and since > the last maintainer of Xprint moved on to other projects (such as > integrating ksh93 into OpenSolaris) a few years ago, little activity > has happened on Xprint. ... well, after the STSF project went down there was little hope to get Xprint back on it's feet... ;-( ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;)
