http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8352
--- Comment #18 from Galen Charlton <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Kyle M Hall from comment #16) > (In reply to Galen Charlton from comment #14) > > +1 to taking advantage of the existing structure for defining print queues. > > I'm afraid I don't believe this to be as good an idea as it may have seemed > at first. It appears that admin/printers.pl has been hidden since 2008, 8 > years ago. The schema for this table would need to be completely recreated > as the existing one does not fit with the data needed for Net::Printer. Even > worse, the code itself is extremely broken and would have to be rewritten > from scratch. I've sent Chris a query regarding whether he's got the current print queue stuff working for any of his libraries. > So, in short, we wouldn't be taking advantage of the existing structure for > defining print queues, because it would all need to be completely thrown > away and totally rewritten, including the printers table itself. Agreed there are some changes that would be required. > I'm not really seeing what the advantage would be to defining the printers > from the web interface either. In fact, it seems even a bit unwanted > perhaps. Printer configuration is a system administration task. I don't see > a great advantage to allowing librarians to alter the printer data from a > web interface. Disagree. Particularly since Net::Printer talks to the printer directly, there isn't any server-side configuration of setting up lpr queues as seems to be required for the current printer queue approach. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Koha-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-bugs website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
