Upstream future of ippusbxd
Hi,
ippusbxd is a daemon to support IPP-over-USB printing, a standard for a
packet-based USB protocol for printers, which especially adds full IPP
and HTTP functionality to a USB-connected, non-networked printer: Web
interface of the printer for configuration (especially also the
printer's WiFi if it does not have a front panel) and for using the
built-in scanner, IPP querying of printer properties, and even
driverless printing via IPP Everywhere.
The daemon was developed by Daniel Dresssler as a GSoC project. Now
Daniel has no time any more to maintain it and upstream maintainership
is going over to me (and so to OpenPrinting).
I am thinking about joining it into the cups-filters upstream package to
not have too many tiny packages to make up the complete printing stack
and cups-filters contains all manufacturer-independent software for
communication with printers which is not part of CUPS itself. It will
usually be used with CUPS anyway as there are no other maintained
printing environments. You will simply have as manufacturer-independent
part of the printing stack CUPS, cups-filters, and at least one PDF
renderer (currently Ghostscript or Poppler, in the future perhaps also
MuPDF) plus the manufacturer-dependent drivers (foomatic-db, HPLIP,
Gutenprint, ...).
WDYT?
Till
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