[cups.development] [RFE] STR #3935: Drop serial andparallelbackends

[Michael R Sweet]

Sorry but no.

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On Nov 13, 2011, at 8:33 AM, roland <roland at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:

>> On Nov 10, 2011, at 7:31 AM, roland wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE.  INSTEAD, POST ANY RESPONSES TO THE LINK BELOW.
>>>> 
>>>> [STR Closed w/Resolution]
>>>> 
>>>> Fixed in Subversion repository.
>>>> 
>>>> Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3935
>>>> Version: 1.6-feature
>>>> Fix Version: 1.6-current (r9925)
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> If there actually was a method of posting something at the link, I would respond there.
>> 
>> There is, you just need to log in.
>> 
>>> DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DROP SUPPORT FOR SERIAL AND PARALLEL PRINTERS.
>> 
>> It has already happened.
> 
> Then back it out!
> 
>> 
>>> Whoever came up with that idea has no concept of reality.
>> 
>> It has been many years since any personal computer was sold with a parallel port, and most consumer PCs haven't had a serial port in a long time, too.
>> 
> 
> Whoever made that statement was talking so far out their rectal sphincter that if they stood in California when they said it, the only people who could have possibly heard lived in China.
> 
> I took 10 minutes and went to the Microcenter Web site.  This isn't the biggest computer chain store in the U.S., but it is large.  ALL OF THESE ARE FOR SALE TODAY!
> 
> searial port computers
> 
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0373106
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0373108
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0371737
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378290
> 
> parallel and serial
> 
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0360509
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0366803
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378821
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0376500
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378825
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378822
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378826
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0367044
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378828
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0358703
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0376497
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378163
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378823
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0360494
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378827
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0358698
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0364885
> 
> motherboards with serial and parallel
> 
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0375352
> http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0365090
> 
> 
> I didn't go to Tiger Direct because the list would have been exponentially longer.
> 
> Backout this ill thought out change.
> 
> 
> 
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