[cups.development] [RFE] STR #2566: Windows Driver for CUPS/64bit

[Michael R Sweet]

Franz,

Changes to the MS DDK license put hard requirements on updating or pulling DDK-based drivers at Microsoft's whim. That prevents us from releasing any new binaries.

Also, it looks like Windows 8 will no longer support unsigned drivers (perhaps not even the old-style drivers at all) which makes it impossible to provide a generic driver at all (MS only signs WCL-certified printer drivers...)

If the situation changes, we will reopen these bugs and release new versions of the Windows driver, but right now I am not hopeful...

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On Jan 13, 2012, at 7:13 AM, Pförtsch, Franz <Franz.Pfoertsch at brose.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> where will this issue be addressed or is 
> the cups flavour of windowsdriver dead?
> 
> A increasing number of workstation is running with 64bit and the cups-team
> will not 
> fix that problem?
> 
> a lot of regards
> Franz 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Michael Sweet [mailto:msweet at apple.com] 
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2012 21:03
> An: Pförtsch, Franz
> Cc: Pförtsch, Franz; cups-dev at easysw.com
> Betreff: Re: [RFE] STR #2566: Windows Driver for CUPS/64bit
> 
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> [STR Closed w/o Resolution]
> 
> Sorry, we have decided this issue will not be addressed in a CUPS release.
> 
> Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2566
> Version:  -feature
> Fix Version: Will Not Fix
> 
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