>> Patrick Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sorry, we decided that since we could do everything that CUPS does in
> about 1/3 the space, we didn't go that route ;)
Hmm...
> (it goes without saying that it handles queuing, and job management).
Uhm? So, it goes beyond just installing printers? Does it have its
own queuing or is that implemented on top of something else? For me,
CUPS is as close to PnP as I'd ever like such a component to be. The
_killer_ feature of CUPS for me is the no-nonsense approach to printer
management. I _love_ being able to have the configuration for all the
printers in the department in a single place, all the print queues
available at a single point and adding clients by just rsync'ing two
files to them.
Having something that allows me to say "look for a printer at this
address" and have it automagically added to the CUPS configuration
would be (welcomed) candy.
> And since this is being written in the same manner that WvDial was,
Oh, that's why the Wv prefix rang a bell... the one thing I hate about
WvDial is that it was either hard or impossible to integrate it with
the rest of the system. I figure printing on Unix has more historical
baggage and it's harder to ignore it (e.g., most programs will expect a
System V or BSD-like interface for job submission).
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