[cups] Why are we letting Apple Break printing in Linux?

[Jeff Dyck]

Pretty sure the Open Printing group has taken over CUPS since September 2020… from the “A Brief History of CUPS” on the open printing website:

"In December 2019, Michael left Apple to start Lakeside Robotics <https://www.lakesiderobotics.ca/>. In September 2020 he teamed up with the OpenPrinting developers to fork Apple CUPS to continue its development. Today Apple CUPS <https://github.com/apple/cups> is the version of CUPS that is provided with macOS® and iOS® while OpenPrinting CUPS <https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups> is the version of CUPS being further developed by OpenPrinting for all operating systems.”

The newest Apple version of CUPS is 2.3.6 from May 25, 2022.

The newest version of OpenPrinting CUPS is 2.4.7 from 3 weeks ago.  And all the 3.0 work is being done by OpenPrinting as well.

Jeff

> On Oct 11, 2023, at 11:29 AM, Mark Dm <markosjal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This has to stop.
> 
> I recently installed a newer version of CUPS (2.3.3op2) along with a Linux
> Install (Debian Bullseye 11). only to find that none of the extra features
> like Android Printing , Windows automatic driver download and install do
> not seem to work any longer.
> 
> Apple no longer claims to use CUPS so it is now only a part of Linux? So we
> leave the fox to guard the hen house?
> 
> I question the CUPS relationship with Apple and where it has brought us to
> 
> Maybe it is time to look to some other printing solutions in Linux. There
> is no benefit whatsoever in Apple having ultimate control in CUPS
> especially if it is no long a part of their own OS.
> 
> Mark de Leon Martinez
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