[Printing-architecture] Removal of features in CUPS

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 21:58:57 UTC 2012


On 02/08/2012 05:19 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>> ...
>> Using the libpthread approach will also make the libusb-based backend very similar to the Darwin backend, which should make maintenance of CUPS easier.
>>
>> Mike, what do you think about that?
>
> That is exactly how I would do it.  And thanks again for working on this!

I have implemented it this way now. The result is in

http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2890

With this patch applied to CUPS 1.5.2

echo -en '#CUPS-COMMAND\nAutoConfigure\n' | lpr -P <printer>

works now also for USB-connected PostScript printers when using the 
libusb-based USB backend.

    Till


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