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

[Michael Sweet]

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[STR Resolved]

If you are a developer, the deprecation messages are already in the
documentation.

If you are a user, the technology used by the driver doesn't matter - you
just pick the right driver (as long as we use drivers...) either from a
list in the web interface or your GUI of choice, or on the command-line by
specifying a "model" name which maps to an interface script, PPD file,
driver info file, tar file, or driver interface depending on the driver...

The OpenPrinting summits have posted slides - see the corresponding meeting
pages (Internet search will find them quite easily).

The cups-driverd man page documents the current behavior of CUPS.  It would
not make sense to say anything about deprecation there because there is
nothing the reader can do about it - deprecation of a specific printer
driver file format is something that needs to be communicated to
developers, not to users, and even then we are not telling driver
developers to use something else, we are telling them (and the world) that
printer drivers are going away and the only way for printers to be
supported in the future is for those printers to support a standard set of
protocols and file formats - the (publicly available) IPP Everywhere
standard.

Link: https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4623
Version: 2.0-current
Fix Version: None
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