Ghee Teo wrote:
> Norm Jacobs wrote:
>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 3. Should we use the CUPS or the LP print service
>>>> on Solaris?
>>>> (sounds like CUPS is going to be the preferred
>>>> print service).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> We have heard, although not investigated, that CUPS on Solaris fixes the
>>> printing Issues that we are having ... I am sure that it would handle more
>>> file type conversion (especially with GhostScript) than you could do
>>> manually with standard LP
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> As I am no longer with Sun, I can't say definitively, but the intention
>> has been to move Solaris Nevada and OpenSolaris to CUPS.
>>
> It is a BIG miss for Norm not to be working inside Sun. while I can't
> say whether
> the intention changes or not from Sun's business perspective. It is
> nevertheless we
> recognize that CUPS is crucial/significant in the Open Source world,
> going against
> it is to create more works for ourselves in the longer term.
>
>> I integrated
>> CUPS in build 87, along with the bits necessary to switch between CUPS
>> and LP. LP is the default right now. CUPS was to be the default in the
>> future, after a few things were addressed.
>>
>>
> There are a couple of piece of the CUPS for OpenSolaris was supposed
> to come
> in very soon, namely, a Print Manager for CUPS and auto-detection for
> USB printers
> through HAL integrated with CUPS. The former is coming in 107, but the
> latter is
> now straw with Norm is able working on it. May be I can take over some
> other internal
> processes like ARC, OSR, what do you think Norm?
I filed an OSR a couple of months ago for the hal-cups-utils bits. I
also wrote a one pager for a SelfReview ARC case (there really aren't
any public interfaces, so it's not strictly necessary), but I don't know
what happened to that.
-Norm
