[Printing-architecture] First beta of pappl-retrofit released!

[Printing-architecture] First beta of pappl-retrofit released!

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

in the course of creating the first Debian package of pappl-retrofit 
(for Ubuntu) I have done some fixes and improvements on the 1.0b1 
version and released them in version 1.0b2.

Besides many little fixes in the source code documentation I have added 
support for the Legacy Printer Application being run permanently as a 
system daemon. So distros can opt for this mode via a simple command 
line option to the ./configure call.

This way a user who wants to continue using a certain CUPS printer 
driver, which is installed as classic driver, only needs to install 
their distro's Legacy Printer Application package, and create a printer 
in the Legacy Printer Application's web interface.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/pappl-retrofit-Second-Beta-Release/

There are also GitHub discussions set up for each release now.

    Till

[Printing-architecture] First beta of pappl-retrofit released!

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

After two years of development (first year as part of the PostScript 
Printer Application) I am finally spinning a first release of 
pappl-retrofit, the library to convert classic CUPS printer drivers and 
PPD files into Printer Applications.

With CUPS 3.x (does not support PPDs/classic drivers) around the corner 
and also my plans to switch to the CUPS Snap (does not support 
PPDs/classic drivers) as default printing system in Ubuntu 23.04 
(Feature Freeze Feb 2023) we need to make pappl-retrofit "distro-ready", 
so it needs releases and versions.

Therefore I have released 1.0b1 now and ask everyone of you to test and 
also to start distro-packaging, for Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, ...

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/pappl-retrofit-First-Beta-Release/

There are also GitHub discussions set up for each release now.

    Till