[Foomatic] Using usb IDs for autodetection
Kurt Pfeifle
kpfeifle at danka.de
Thu Apr 8 13:11:19 PDT 2004
Grant Taylor wrote:
>>Yeah, this seems like an issue. To my novice mind, it seems like it'd
>>make sense for the foomatic DB to be the canonical DB for this info.
>
>
> We pretty much are; as is we are the clear source for non-ps printer
> info, and we are afaik the only centralized source of dfsg-free PPD
> files (although maybe cups throws them in?). It's just that the two
> are needlessly disjoint for historical reasons.
>
You should all look at the new "CUPS Driver Development Kit", please
released under GPL 2 weeks ago.
It allows you to develop CUPS raster and PCL drivers with associated
PPDs. Eventually, that approach would be much cleaner than the ingenious
Foomatic-"reroute from CUPS to Ghostscript"-hack.
For a (long enough) transition perion (or maybe "forever") the current
Foomatic approach could still be maintained.
There shouldn't be any fundamental problem to let the Foomatic-DB and
a new generator engine spit out the PCL-PPD for example....
Cheers,
Kurt
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