[cups.general] Cups DOWN-grading?

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Thu Feb 16 02:25:20 PST 2012


Hello Michael,

On Feb 15 12:43 Michael Sweet wrote (excerpt):
> 1. Linux-only print backends/filters have moved out of the
> core CUPS distribution and are now being maintained and
> developed by the Open Printing project (Linux Foundation)
> - Linux users won't see a difference.
>
> 2. CUPS Browsing (UDP broadcasts over port 631) is no longer
> supported in CUPS 1.6, replaced by Bonjour (DNS-SD, ZeroConf,
> and mDNS).
....
> This mainly affects people that use BrowsePoll and/or implicit
> classes for load balancing - regular printer sharing will
> continue to work, just using a different protocol for finding
> and using the printers.

Would you mind providing an official page at http://www.cups.org/
regarding those changes in CUPS 1.6 so that there would be an official
place where the changes, the reasoning behind, and the new solutions
are officially documented to stop rumors and hearsay.

Many thanks in advance!


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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