On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:21:07AM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 18:14 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > What's the story about the PPD stuff Till is talking about there? That > > scares me the most when I read that mail. Will this be supported by a patch > > from openprinting.org? Seeing how Apple upstream is dropping features we > > need, I wonder whether the best solution wouldn't be a full-blown fork of > > CUPS, where your Avahi patches could also be merged to. > > I'm not sure of the details. Here is the background: > > The Printer Working Group is engaged in an effort called IPP > Everywhere¹. The goal is to have "driverless" printing by having a > small common set of imaging standards in printers, and for the printer > capabilities to be inspected using IPP. [...] > ¹ http://pwg-wiki.wikispaces.com/IPP+Everywhere I'm still using a very servicable HP LaserJet 5M from ca.1996. I wonder how the glorious future will be for me? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
