[cups.general] 1.6x IPP printer detection
Kai Hendry
hendry at webconverger.com
Wed Mar 13 22:11:10 PDT 2013
On 13 March 2013 23:13, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
> I have talked a bit with a few folks to see what we can do here in the long run; currently client software has to "opt in" to the new dynamic CUPS destination API, but perhaps we can start a thread in libcups that just maintains a current list of available printers - we would need to start it when cupsGetDests is called the first time (and give it a few seconds to populate the list), and then possibly provide a separate function that could be called to start or stop this thread independently.
Ok, just to summarise. IIUC with mdns or DNS-SD, one needs to
*manually* setup the printer in CUPS.
Previously in CUPS 1.5 you could use BrowsePoll to automatically
detect the printers without setup, which is deprecated in 1.6.
Did I understand correctly?
Many thanks,
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