[Kde-print-devel] Printing, CUPS version

[Cristian Tibirna]

On 4 July 2007 14:56, Alex Merry wrote:
> While sorting out licensing issues, I ran across a file with code
> borrowed from CUPS.  This is compat code, and Michael Goffioul
> suggested it could probably be got rid of.
>
> Currently, we require version 1.1.19 of CUPS, and these functions are
> contained in 1.1.20.  The previous stable versions of both Debian and
> Redhat use at least 1.1.22, and the current stable versions of each use
> 1.2.
>
> I suggest that we require CUPS 1.1.20, which will allow us to get rid of
> the last of the version-specific code in the cups subdirectory of
> kdeprint.
>
> The file in question is kdelibs/kdeprint/cups/cupsdconf2/cups-util.c.
>

Yes, I agree. I even intend to go farther and try to reanalyse all the 
dependencies upon CUPS. There are, most important, missing things, and, also 
very important, new/better ways for accessing functionality inside CUPS.

All this requires a rather important effort and I agree it has to be split in 
smaller tasks. Thanks for identifying one such. I will strive to put up a 
list of the things to do in this category.

Thanks

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Cristian Tibirna
KDE developer .. tibirna at kde.org .. http://www.kde.org