Re: Things and such

Néstor Díaz Valencia wrote:
> El Lunes, 12 de Julio de 2004 23:59, Robert L Krawitz escribió:
>
> >   From: =?iso-8859-15?q?N=E9stor_D=EDaz_Valencia?=
> > <nestordiaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:56:13 +0200
> >
> >   2) Nestor, thanks for initiating discussion with the Inkscape folks.
> >    Your answers were accurate.  Can you continue to be the interface
> >   point, at least until I'm back?
> >
> >   They are very busy featuring freezeing and bug hunting for next
> >   release 0.39.  Maybe better wait.
> >
> > Sure.
> >
> >   Gutenprint everybody?
> >
> >   > 4) About the database request: I'd like to put all of the printers
> >   >    into our database rather than telling people to refer to the NEWS
> >   >    file.  This could be done with some kind of aliasing and a minor
> >   >    API change to get the actual printer name, perhaps.
> >
> >   My database request for having an easy and comprenhensive search
> >   method for future or already users. You mean dumping from the
> >   applications database to a SQL command?
> >
> > What I'm thinking is that all of the printers that we know about
> > should be accessible via the menus in the GIMP plugin or CUPS or
> > Foomatic.  This does, of course, mean PPD file bloat.
>
>
> But this means install before knowing it works.
> If I am a regular user I will check the site for my printer before installing 
> or upgrading.  Just my opinion.

What we do for ESP Print Pro is build a flat file ("printers.dat")
which lists the model names, languages, PPD filenames, and package
names, and then we search that from a PHP page.  The file is built
along with the drivers themselves, and then we just update the copy
on the web server when we do a release.  The page is at:

    http://www.easysw.com/printpro/printers.php

It would be trivial to implement this with the CUPS genppd code,
and I'd be happy to donate the PHP code for searching it...

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Printing Software for UNIX                       http://www.easysw.com


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