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Removing driver support from CUPS is one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard of in software development and I’m pretty certain it will result in a fork. I’m
by cbmuser 5y ago
Removing driver support from CUPS is one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard of in software development and I’m pretty certain it will result in a fork.
I’m not going to throw my printer away just because another FOSS project has decided to go the GNOME way.
- mjg59 5y agoThe article describes the plan for this. For printers that don't implement IPP Anywhere natively, an app can present a local IPP Anywhere implementation and bridge that to the printer's native protocol. Abstracting the native protocol support away from the print spooler apparently simplifies a lot of the design and should avoid the current situation where you can end up with tight binding between the CUPS version and the driver version.
- hexa22 5y agoAnd who will maintain this fork? For over a decade CUPS is the work of a single developer. No one is exactly lining up to maintain buggy printer drivers.