[cups.general] CUPS 1.6 and PPD's [not] going away

[Michael Sweet]

Paul,

Support for PPDs is not going away in CUPS 1.6.

All we are doing is deprecating the PPD APIs and PPD compiler: they will continue to exist, and we will continue to fix bugs, but we will not be adding new features to the APIs or PPD compiler.

Additional details will emerge on cups.org as they are available...


On Oct 18, 2011, at 7:06 PM, Paul Conklin wrote:

> Is there any doc / whitepaper out there on what all this change will entail?  I have quite a bit of custom programming done around MIME types, custom filters and custom PPD's, so I'd like to try and stay ahead of the game.  I'm hoping to just make the jump from 1.4.x to 1.6.x and skip 1.5 alltogether when the time comes but trying to keep my development roadmap in line with yours.
> 
> thanks much.
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