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On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, Michael. |
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> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 07:03:19PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: |
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>> Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 16:43:39 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: |
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>> > Is that right? How about it being saner to conform to standardised |
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>> > interfaces, protocols and formats? |
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>> How about IPP? |
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol |
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>> Oh wait... that's what cups is using. |
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> Ah yes, a standard. So we have the choice between all the IPP |
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> implementations. That's cups and, ... err - is there another one? |
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The point is that it is a standard, not a proprietary protocol. The |
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proof is that it works on every operating system. |
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> But why should I have to use an over the top bloated "Internet" protocol? |
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> I've got one single printer on the end of a USB cable. I want a simple |
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> spooler, as simple as possible and not simpler. |
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Nobody is forcing you to anything: but upstream projects (like |
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LibreOffice) need to fulfill the needs of all their users... not only |
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you. Don't force *them* to support every single printing system in the |
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planet earth; it's Open Source, if it's so important to you, write the |
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lpr support for LibreOffice. |
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>> > No, the sane alternative is to use the `lpr' command, possibly augmented |
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>> > by special arguments for particular spoolers, but always having a |
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>> > fallback to standard `lpr'. That way, everybody's happy. Even me. ;-) |
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>> How about the lpr command provided by cups? |
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>> Does it not work for you? |
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> I believe it did work for me for the short time I had cups installed. |
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> More pertinent is, why won't the lpr command work for LibreOffice? |
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Because the Open Source community has limited resources. The |
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LibreOffice devs (or maybe the Gentoo ones) choose to support CUPS and |
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only CUPS, because it takes care of the most cases, not only yours. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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