[cups.development] Backend for Canon network protocol

[Louis Lagendijk]

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 08:54 -0700, Michael R Sweet wrote:
> Louis Lagendijk wrote:
> > hi,
> > I have made the code I developed so far available on
> > http://www.fazant.net/cups/bjnp-backend.tar.gz. 
> > Modifications can be found in runloop.c and bjnp.c which is for now a
> > copy of socket.c with small modifications. This code is just a
> > prototype.
> > See all the udp command stuff in bjnp-io.c for all the canon specific
> > stuff.
> 
> OK, given that you need to send commands out-of-band, a port monitor
> won't help. 
understood.
>  Also, because of the nature of the changes, I don't see
> us incorporating them into the socket backend, but we'll be happen
> to host a link on the CUPS links page:
What exactly are you objecting to that makes it undesirable to merge
this into socket.c? Is it the usage of the write call in runloop? Other
changes can easily be cleaned up. It is not that I object, but I would
like to uderstand....
And thanks for the offer of hosting a link. When I am ready, I will
definately take up the offer

Thanks for your help and great product!

kind regards, Louis