Re: When is pappl going to be good enough to replace cups?

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On 5/22/21 9:58 PM, Björn Persson wrote:

So what I'm hearing is that Fedora will soon stop working with my
printer,
There isn't a specific date for removing the functionality, now we work on implementing printer applications for widely known and open sourced printer drivers.
 because if there isn't enough manpower to even keep existing
printer drivers in place,
The future removal isn't due lacking manpower, but due moving to standardized and less hardware dependent solutions - driverless standards such as IPP Everywhere. And those standards are supported by 98% devices released after 2010.
 then who is going to write a bunch of pappls
for not-quite-brand-new printers?
Openprinting community plans to write printer applications for some widely known printer drivers during Google Summer of Code in the future[1]. For others - we expect other communities which want those devices to work once drivers are removed from CUPS will step up and implement the missing parts. Openprinting created a printer application library [2] and documentation for them [3][4].

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.

CUPS discovery is designed to run on secure, private LAN, so it is expected that you have a protection against somebody connecting to your WIFI.


[1] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/gsoc/google-summer-code-2021-openprinting-projects#converting_classic_cups_printer_drivers_into_printer_applications_multiple_students

[2] https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pappl/

[3] https://openprinting.github.io/documentation/01-printer-application/

[4] https://openprinting.github.io/documentation/02-designing-printer-drivers/


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