[cups.development] Extending printers.conf with own attributes

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed Mar 12 02:07:05 PDT 2008


Johannes Grumboeck wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> 
>> Johannes Grumb�ck wrote:
>>> Michael Sweet wrote:
>>>
>>>> We are in the process of completing custom attributes (specifically
>>>> to provide network default options, but the solution will support
>>>> any attribute) for CUPS 1.2.
>>> Is there already something in the CVS?
>> No, not yet.
> 
> Is there anything new about the printers.conf and managing custom attributes in there?

You can set arbitrary attributes with -default on the end in CUPS 1.3.
We decided not to allow arbitrary non-default attributes since they
didn't map well to IPP.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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