(fwd) [Printing-summit] QUESTION for operating system vendors/distributors

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

FYI. IMHO our answer should be "No problems for Debian, but please make it a
minor version bump, and not just a point release bump".

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

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• To: printing-summit@lists.freestandards.org, gimp-print-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
• Subject: [Printing-summit] QUESTION for operating system vendors/distributors
• From: Robert L Krawitz <rlk@alum.mit.edu>
• Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:43:55 -0400
• Message-id: <200608210143.k7L1htGC010702@dsl092-065-009.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net>

The Gutenprint project is considering a change that would create at
least a partial dependency of Gutenprint on the CUPS API
(specifically, the PPD file parser in libcups).  How much of a problem
would this pose to OS distributors/vendors (e. g. Linux distributions,
Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, etc)?

Would it be easier if we were to introduce this change in a new minor
version (e. g. 5.2) vs. a point release (e. g. 5.0.1)?

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