[lsm-printing] Re: [Foomatic] Driver maintainers?
Till Kamppeter
till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Thu Oct 14 11:01:40 PDT 2004
David Chamberlin wrote:
> Hi Till,
>
> Hope your wedding and honeymoon were relaxing. :o)
>
It was great, thanks.
> Sorry, you have to come home to such nonsense about the "perfectly
> supported", not necessarily "works perfectly".
> Alas, it's a HP and they should have known better...
>
> I suppose eventually all high moments of enlightenment have to
> be overwhelmed by a digress of ranting...
>
> PS. We are thinking about some means internally to store all model data in
> an XML schema for our devices. It would include the model specific
> information,
> feature information, PDL information, constraint information, etc. We want
> it
> to be able to generate PPDs, UPDF, (and well, why not, MS GPDs) for use in a
> variety of platforms that support these files.
Sound nice.
> Unfortunately, I'll probably
> not
> be able to Open Source the effort...
>
This does not sound very nice. Will there at least some result from this
go into free software (PPDs, PJL, PCL, ...)?
> I'll do my best to update our info on the Web Site and train our engineers
> on it...
>
Is there already info on a web site from Kyocera?
> Also, I found some help for PDQ admin, etc. PDQ2 can be re-merged into the
> main branch, but I don't know how
> to accomplish. I need some guidelines - know where I should start?
>
Simply commit all changes to the CVS of the PDQ SourceForge project,
then make a release.
Till
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