[cups.general] 1.6x IPP printer detection

[Michael Sweet]

Kai,

On 2013-03-14, at 1:10 AM, Kai Hendry <hendry at webconverger.com> wrote:
> ...
> Ok, just to summarise. IIUC with mdns or DNS-SD, one needs to
> *manually* setup the printer in CUPS.

For applications that don't support the current destination functions in libcups, this is correct.  Otherwise you can discover and use shared printers directly without adding a local queue pointing to the remote server (which is how CUPS browsing did things).

> Previously in CUPS 1.5 you could use BrowsePoll to automatically
> detect the printers without setup, which is deprecated in 1.6.

Correction: BrowsePoll (and everything having to do with CUPS Browsing) was deprecated in  1.4 and removed in 1.6.  Deprecation doesn't mean removal, it just is a warning that it will be removed at some point in the future.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair