[cups.general] CUPS Quota and LDAP

[Jerome Alet]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 04:10:06PM -0400, wtautz wrote:
> >   
> Jerome, How does your system compare to esup-print, i.e. what can
> he do that yours does not and vice versa?

I believe that esup-print is more complete, and probably more 
complex than PyKota. I'm not sure esup-print works without 
other esup modules, or without an LDAP server for example. 

Esup-print has a really really great (IMHO) ACL system to manage 
access to printers. 

On the other hand, PyKota is probably much more versatile, it can be 
adapted to almost anyone's needs easily, mostly by allowing the admin to 
plug-in his own scripts and use standard system tools (like cron for 
example) to manage PyKota's datas. 

Purely on the print accounting side, PyKota is far better in my not 
so humble opinion. 

What differentiate both systems also, is that esup-print was 
originally designed to entirely and perfectly fulfill the needs of a 
single site, and it seems it does very well, while PyKota was 
probably not designed at all ;-) but can be made to work for many 
more people more easily. 

To open a flamewar I could add that esup-print relies on Java, which
sucks, and PyKota on Python, which rules ;-)

I should probably add that I've never tried esup-print, but I've
looked at the code and documentation a few months ago. 

The text above is probably partisan opinion, but it's my opinion 
anyway. 

Anyone from University of Rennes 1 caring to comment ?

bye

Jerome Alet