[cups-devel] [UNKN] STR #4623: Support for dynamically created PPDs silently deprecated?

Stefan Brüns noreply at cups.org
Sat May 2 11:05:23 PDT 2015


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[STR New]

The cups-driverd man page was aggregated into cupsd-helpers on 2014-04-15.
With this change any documentation of dynamically created PPDs by
/usr/lib/cups/driver/<driver> has been dropped.

Are dynamically created PPDs no longer supported?

Dynamic PPDs where added with CUPS 1.2.
About the efficiency of dynamic vs static PPDS, STR#2403 mentions:
MSweet> "That said, Foomatic does provide a far more efficient driver
interface"

gutenprint 5.2. e.g. creates 4682 PPDs when using static PPDs.

Link: https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4623
Version: 2.0-current
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