Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes: > From: Robert L Krawitz <rlk@alum.mit.edu> > Subject: [Printing-summit] QUESTION for operating system vendors/distributors > To: printing-summit@lists.freestandards.org, > gimp-print-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:43:55 -0400 > > 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)? > 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". Agreed. I think that would be a good response, if you would like to follow it up. [Just some comments as one of the upstream folks] Note that this would most likely not be an API/ABI change; the CUPS PPD parser would be a dependency of the PostScript family driver, which is a loadable module; the core library and the other family drivers (escp2, canon, pcl etc.) would not have this dependency unless linked statically. Given the practical considerations, it would be best not done in a point release. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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