[cups.general] 1.6x IPP printer detection

[Michael Sweet]

Kai,

On 2013-03-14, at 10:47 AM, Kai Hendry <hendry at webconverger.com> wrote:
> ...
> If I knew the ipp address, lets say ipp://192.168.1.5/printers/foobar,
> then I could deploy an image to a customer with a printers.conf and a
> postcript PPD, couldn't I? Using 1.5.

Yes, although that type of deployment is 100% unsupported because printers.conf and the location of PPD files are implementation (and site configuration) details.  A better approach is to provide a shell script that "extracts" the PPD to a temporary file and uses the lpadmin command to add the printer.

> 
>>    http://www.opensource.apple.com/tarballs/mDNSResponder/
> 
> So IIUC this project can implement that Bonjour discovery on Linux? As
> an alternative to the typical Avahi deployments in distributions.


Yes.  mDNSResponder was first, but the original license had some GPL compatibility issues so Avahi was born as a replacement.  Apple has since changed the license, but I guess people still have concerns.

mDNSResponder runs on Linux, OS X, Windows, and pretty much every UNIX/UNIX-like operating system.  It can also be embedded in things like printers, cameras, etc., and several manufacturers use mDNSResponder for exactly that reason.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair