9:44 p.m.
I have to take a moment and shout out KUDOS to whomever it was / is
that is working on cups! Although, by necessity, I and others who have
been around a while know how to work with the commands, having the
machine do it for the user makes it so much more convenient,
especially if / when the North Americans move away from those flaky
other OS's.
Out of curiosity, does our team develop with cups, or are they a
separate entity - for lack of a better word - altogether?
2:11 a.m.
On Sun, 2013-07-28 at 19:44 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
I have to take a moment and shout out KUDOS to whomever it was / is
that is working on cups! Although, by necessity, I and others who have
been around a while know how to work with the commands, having the
machine do it for the user makes it so much more convenient,
especially if / when the North Americans move away from those flaky
other OS's.
Out of curiosity, does our team develop with cups, or are they a
separate entity - for lack of a better word - altogether?
CUPS itself is mostly maintained by Apple. Your message doesn't make it
very clear whether it's actually CUPS you're praising, though, or
various other bits of the printing stack; there's rather more to it than
just CUPS.
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11:59 a.m.
On Jul 29, 2013, at 10:20 AM, richard.vickeryrv(a)gmail.com wrote:
I thought CUPS was developed by the open source community; I was just setting up the
printer and impressed that the program called up the commands itself, and thought one of
us was responsible for making it so easy, even if at a lesser extent.
It was and still is developed by the open source community. Apple bought EasySoft six
years ago, and thus took over maintaining it, although Mike Sweet has been the person
behind it all along and to the present day.
Most of the CUPS filters have been split out of CUPS into the cups-filters package
maintained by the Linux Foundation, as Apple is moving to IPP Everywhere for driverless
printing.
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/cups-f...
Chris Murphy
4:20 a.m.
On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 09:20 -0700, richard.vickeryrv(a)gmail.com wrote:
I thought CUPS was developed by the open source community; I was
just
setting up the printer and impressed that the program called up the
commands itself, and thought one of us was responsible for making it
so easy, even if at a lesser extent.
There is no single "open source community" really. CUPS is developed as
open source, and Apple does most of the core development.
If you're thinking about automatic printer driver installation, or
automatic queue set-up when a USB printer is connected, or the slick
Printers page in the GNOME System Settings tool... those features were
largely developed by Red Hat. :-)
Tim.
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