Felix Schulte wrote:
> I already asked this question in Alan Coopersmith's blog: Why lacks
> Solaris 10/Express still very basic things for Xprint support - there
> is no launcher script (/etc/init.d/xprint) nor xplsprinters,
> xprehashprinterlist and so on?
Because we have a very long list of things we need to sync up with
the Xorg open source releases still, and those were lower down the
priority list. Keeping up with enhancments to the open source
releases will be a never-ending job, and we are working on catching
up bit by bit. In the latest Solaris Express you can see new
additions from the open source release that were higher priority for
various reasons (xorgcfg for a GUI configuration tool for Xorg, some
additional command line tools for extensions such as Xrandr, and the
additional libraries xorgcfg and those tools needed).
Unfortunately, Xprint hasn't been as widely adopted as we would have
hoped, so it falls a bit further down the priority list than things
needed for the Xorg server itself which is used by a much much larger
number of Solaris users. We still support and encourage it, and will
bring in those tools eventually. (Though we'd put in an SMF manifest
for xprint, not /etc/init.d/xprint, but that's not hard to do, and the
script others ship in /etc/init.d would probably become the method
script for SMF.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
