[cups.development] [RFE] STR #2786: Wine need an Option to check, that a cached Printer list is still up to date

Detlef Riekenberg cups.dev at web.de
Wed Apr 16 10:18:26 PDT 2008


On Sa, 2008-04-05 at 09:15 -0700, Michael Sweet wrote:

> I'd be interested to know what version of CUPS you are using, since
> cupsGetDests() is generally quite fast in recent CUPS releases.

I forward your Question.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3507
(I can't remember the other bug with the even longer Delays a.t.m)

> Regardless, don't use cupsGetDests(), make a CUPS_GET_PRINTERS IPP request
>  and get your list of printers using cupsDoRequest() - you can limit the
> request to just the printer-name and printer-type attributes and will not
> have the overhead of the convenience API call.
> ...

Thanks for your Hints.


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