Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 18:19 Kevin Kofler via devel < > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Zdenek Dohnal wrote: > > > The purpose of the library is have a way how to implement a support for > > > devices which don't support IPP Everywhere [2] or its derivations > > > (Airprint, Mopria, Google cloud print) or IPP over USB[3], so they can > > > be seen by CUPS once we remove printer driver support. > > > > I really don't see how the switch from drivers to printer applications is > > an > > improvement. All the existing drivers have to be ported to the new > > interface > > to essentially emulate the IPP protocol. > > Yes it is a bad situation but I don’t think there are a set of ‘CUPS’ > developers versus one person trying to keep the software going. Apple > stopped supporting the product and msweet is working for himself now. > lprint seems to be a ‘make a best out of a bad situation’. So what I'm hearing is that Fedora will soon stop working with my printer, because if there isn't enough manpower to even keep existing printer drivers in place, then who is going to write a bunch of pappls for not-quite-brand-new printers? And if the bright and shiny future is that USB printers look just like network printers, and network printers just show up without any installation, then I'm starting to wonder how I will know whether I'm sending my sensitive document to my USB printer or to some impostor on a wifi network. I wish working software could just continue working. Obviously that's far too sane for this insane world. Björn Persson
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