[Lpr-discuss] gnulpr rough draft available.

[Ben W. <be...@va...>]

I made a new branch on the lpr sourceforge CVS repository. It is
called the gnulpr-2_0 branch and it is derived from the
bens_dev_branch. It has the gnulpr 2.0 server code that I started
working on over the summer in it. To be honest, I think that I've only
put about 3 working days into it.

Unless you are planning on working on it, I wouldn't bother looking at

Here are the things that I want to do before next weeks meeting with
Sun:

1) Rip out the printcap stuff and make it work with the new
libprintsys. Basically, libprintsys was taken from this code
originally but evolved since then.

2) Fix the autoconf/automake stuff. I basically removed the old lpd
spooler and then added the new stuff. Everything needs to be rewired.

3) Finish the lpd server. I think it is largely done. I want to modify
the place and how I get the credentials and the file descriptor for
standard in.

4) Finish the spool client function. Ultimately this will be an
addition to the libprintsys library.

5) Make the whole bleeding thing compile and run.

James, I know you offered to put some time working on this. I don't
know which parts you would like to work on. I thought that the spool
client code or LPD might be a good place to start but I don't know
what you want to do. Just drop me a line with what you are interested
in wokring on and we'll make sure not to duplicate work.


-ben