On Tuesday 24 December 2002 16:06, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: <snip> > > (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. > How about if we make it as easy as installing WvPrint, and putting two lines in the client config file, that point to a "master" server, and each change won't even need sync'ing up. ;) (we're even working on getting rid of this, but that won't come for a bit... ultimately, we want installing printers to be a simple "apt-get install wvprint", and it will let you print to everything on the network, that hasn't specifically been deemed "no public access".
> 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. > How about just plug the printer in either to a computer running WvPrint, or into the network with a Jet Direct card, and it will be set up ;) > > 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). We'll have lp* so that programs that use those won't be confuzzled ;)... BTW - what do you mean by "hard to integrate with the rest of the system" ?? -- Patrick Patterson Open Source Ambassador Net Integration Technologies
