Norm Jacobs wrote: > Ghee Teo wrote: >> Norm Jacobs wrote: >> >>>> >>>>> 3. Should we use the CUPS or the LP print service >>>>> on Solaris? >>>>> (sounds like CUPS is going to be the preferred >>>>> print service). >>>>> >>>> We have heard, although not investigated, that CUPS on Solaris >>>> fixes the printing Issues that we are having ... I am sure that it >>>> would handle more file type conversion (especially with >>>> GhostScript) than you could do manually with standard LP >>>> >>> As I am no longer with Sun, I can't say definitively, but the >>> intention has been to move Solaris Nevada and OpenSolaris to CUPS. >> It is a BIG miss for Norm not to be working inside Sun. while I >> can't say whether >> the intention changes or not from Sun's business perspective. It is >> nevertheless we >> recognize that CUPS is crucial/significant in the Open Source world, >> going against >> it is to create more works for ourselves in the longer term. >> >>> I integrated CUPS in build 87, along with the bits necessary to >>> switch between CUPS and LP. LP is the default right now. CUPS was >>> to be the default in the future, after a few things were addressed. >>> >> There are a couple of piece of the CUPS for OpenSolaris was >> supposed to come >> in very soon, namely, a Print Manager for CUPS and auto-detection for >> USB printers >> through HAL integrated with CUPS. The former is coming in 107, but >> the latter is >> now straw with Norm is able working on it. May be I can take over >> some other internal >> processes like ARC, OSR, what do you think Norm? > I filed an OSR a couple of months ago for the hal-cups-utils bits. The OSR has been approved as I just checked. > I also wrote a one pager for a SelfReview ARC case (there really > aren't any public interfaces, so it's not strictly necessary), but I > don't know what happened to that. I can take over the ARC works here if you still have a copy, otherwise, I guess I can work on one. Though I would appreciate the code changes you made that makes it works though :)
Thanks, -Ghee
