IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> New CUPS 1.1 beta and set-job-att

Re: IPP> New CUPS 1.1 beta and set-job-attributes extension [why not use "job-sheets"?]

From: Michael Sweet (mike@easysw.com)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 09:19:14 EST

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    Carl-Uno Manros wrote:
    >
    > Jay,
    >
    > My understanding is that Michael's statement was that he is not
    > prepoared to make this kind of change as a last minute change to
    > his current release. I did not interpret that as "it can never
    > be done". Doing Ira's new objects instead would not have changed
    > that I expect.

    Nope.

    However, to clarify things a bit, I am not a fan of collections *or*
    objects right now.

    Extensibility is one thing, but at some point you have to look at the
    real world and decide if maybe it might be better to create new types
    of values that have a specific/fixed format. Not only is it easier to
    implement, but the code is smaller and faster and is more likely to be
    usable in an embedded environment.

    Thus far we have had two extensions that might be able to use
    collections or objects (job-sheets and printer-xri-supported). There
    may be others down the road, but the addition of two new types of
    values (which should be ignored by older implementations) would
    solve those problems with a lot less work. 

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Printing Software for UNIX                       http://www.easysw.com

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