While this case seems to dance around some of the possible "rules" about
EOFs, possibly violating certain Solaris policies, I believe that the
project team has taken all reasonable precautions to ensure that the EOF
is unlikely to actually affect anyone.
Therefore I happily give it a +1. Henceforth, let the dead code be
removed! :-)
- Garrett
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.
>
> 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. The Sun X team tried to get Xprint adoption
> in StarOffice and Netscape, but those applications chose other
> printing solutions. While the Xprint code was integrated into the
> Mozilla community code base, it is not built by default in the
> community code base, and not built in the Solaris bundled builds of
> the Mozilla or Firefox browsers.
>
> The OpenSolaris 2008.05 release shipped without the Xprint server or libXp
> library, and no bugs were filed, nor are we aware of any complaints about
> their lack of inclusion. (They were included in the 2008.11 release, and
> are still in the 2009.06 release.)
>
> This case announces the EOF of, and removes, the Xprint server. It also
> removes without EOF notice, some additional Xprint libraries & utilities
> that were added only in the Nevada train and which have not yet shipped in
> a formal Solaris release. The undocumented pclcomp binary which was used
> only by the Xprint PCL3 backend will also be removed.
>
> The libXp library that has been shipped in Solaris since Solaris 7 11/99
> is declared obsolete, but at this time we have no plans to remove so that
> binary compatibility will not be broken.
>
> The only known consumers of Xprint in Solaris consolidations outside of
> the programs being removed in this case are:
>
> - dtcm(1), the CDE Calendar Manager (see LSARC/2001/526)
> Removal in progress as part of the CDE EOF (LSARC 2007/531)
>
> - mp(1) print filter (see PSARC 2000/199)
> mp defaults to printing via other mechanisms besides Xprint, and will
> still be able to print over the network to Xprint servers on other
> systems when the Xprint options are used, so this removal does not
> depend on any mp changes.
>
> This case delivers in two phases:
>
> 1) In a patch release, announces the obsolesence of the Xprint system,
> and future removal plans for the Xprint server itself.
>
> Exported Interfaces:
> --------------------
> /usr/openwin/bin/Xprint Obsolete PSARC 1998/299: was Standard
> /usr/openwin/bin/libXp.so.1 Obsolete PSARC 1998/299: was Standard
> <X11/extensions/Print.h> Obsolete PSARC 1998/299: was Standard
> <X11/extensions/PrintStr.h> Obsolete PSARC 1998/299: was Standard
> XpExtension protocol Obsolete PSARC 1998/299: was Standard
> /usr/openwin/bin/pclcomp Obsolete PSARC 2000/410: no stability listed
>
> 2) In a minor release, removes the following from the X consolidation:
>
> The entire SUNWxprint-server package, including /usr/X11/bin/Xprt
>
> The entire SUNWxwpft package, containing the Xprt printer font metrics
> information.
>
> From SUNWxwplt and related packages, the binaries & libraries listed below.
>
> Exported Interfaces:
> --------------------
> /usr/openwin/bin/Xprint Removed [1]
> /usr/X11/bin/Xprint Removed [1]
>
> /usr/X11/bin/xplsprinters Removed [2]
> /usr/X11/bin/xprehashprinterlist Removed [2]
> /usr/X11/lib/libXprintUtil.so Removed [2]
> /usr/X11/lib/libXprintAppUtil.so Removed [2]
>
> /usr/X11/include/X11/XprintUtil/xprintutil.h Removed [2]
> /usr/X11/include/X11/XprintAppUtil/xpapputil.h Removed [2]
>
> xlsfonts Xprint font options Removed [3]
>
> xlogo -print* options Removed [4]
>
> /usr/openwin/bin/pclcomp Removed [5]
>
> [1] Added as Standard in PSARC 1998/299
>
> [2] Added as Uncommitted in LSARC 2008/509, only shipped in Nevada,
> never in a minor release of Solaris.
>
> [3] Added as Committed in PSARC 2008/178, only shipped in Nevada,
> never in a minor release of Solaris.
>
> [4] Added as Committed in PSARC 2008/177, only shipped in Nevada,
> never in a minor release of Solaris.
>
> [5] Added in PSARC 2000/410: no stability listed, no man page or other
> documentation ever shipped
>
> 6. Resources and Schedule
> 6.4. Steering Committee requested information
> 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
> X Consolidation (Desktop C-Team)
> 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
> 6.6. ARC Exposure: open
>
>
