Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Gutenprint Printer Application (Native)

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

On 9/21/21 10:01 AM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> On 21/09/2021 02:28, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>>> Note that the retro-fit is not perfect, especially due to the restricted number of vendor-specific
>>> options in PAPPL I could base my Printer Application only on the simplified PPDs and not on the
>>> expert ones.
>>
>> What restriction is this?
> 
> PAPPL only allows a fixed (hard-coded) maximum number of vendor-specific options (PAPPL_MAX_VENDOR =
> 32) in addition to the standard IPP options for a printer. The number of options in the expert PPD
> files is too large for this limit.

What??????  Hard-coded limits in this day and age?  I notice that there are a bunch of others.

With this kind of limit, it would seem very difficult to build a proper RIP using PAPPL.

> What I could do is that in the Snap I could build PAPPL with a higher limit (Snaps bring their own
> libraries).

That's not good.  This would make it impossible to distribute the printer app via other mechanisms
(e. g. RPM).  I still really wouldn't like to do it, but vendoring PAPPL into Gutenprint and
carrying a patch to eliminate the limits would at least be somewhat portable.  If that broke the
network protocol that wouldn't do, but then a snap would have the same problem.