On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:57:31PM +0100, Henrik Edlund wrote:
>
> Requirements
>
> Here the requirements of a solution to the problem will be given. Each
> requirement is given an identification number to the right for later
> reference.
For my particular software PyKota :
All points fit perfectly, with these additional restrictions :
[2] : OK except retry later.
[6] : accounting is done at the beginning of each job for
the previous job. This is identical to the end of
the previous job if the print server can't be
bypassed (if it can be bypassed no need for quotas
anyway)
[8] : only text (or HTML via CGI) reports are available now
PDF (not really PostScript) will come soon.
[10] : incomplete support for this : message doesn't contain
the transaction history.
[11] : This one is a VERY good idea ! Thanks !
[12] : Seems to be difficult to do correcly.
[13] : Probably more easily doable with LPRng, with
CUPS I'm not sure this is doable at all
without some work (I mean CUPS 1.1.x)
I think you should add at least :
[14] user should be able to know before printing how much
print quota the future job will cost. So he can decide
to not send the job to the printer finally.
This IMHO interesting feature is supported by both PrintBill
and PyKota.
Thanks again for the [11] !
Jerome Alet
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in a state of domination and division, and uses the spoils to
dominate more." - RMS
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