Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Samsung ML-1630W for macOS

[Robert K. <rl...@al...>]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:01:50 -0400, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 03:37:20PM +0200, Benjamin Viertel wrote:
>> So, I can perfectly understand your dislike of the current Apple 
>> environment but I assure you it won't be Apple's benefits but the 
>> benefits of users that like to use older stuff (like the printer, 
>> which is actually not THAT old).
>
> It's not just my personal dislike of Apple -- The next major CUPS 
> release will remove all support for PPD-based "CUPS Drivers".  This 
> means that Gutenprint will cease to function on future MacOS releases.

BTW, quite aside from PPD files, there are other advantages to being
an IPP server.  Think about the possibility of a containerized
Gutenprint that we really could continuously release every time we add
a new printer (and it passes a somewhat more robust set of tests than
we currently use, of course).
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