As I mentioned elsewhere, there are some changes ahead in CUPS 1.6. These changes are not imminent but give an indication of the direction the CUPS project is heading.
Back in 2007 CUPS became an Apple project. Now the parts that are not relevant on Mac OS are being dropped, with some of the Linux-relevant parts being gathered together in a separate project, cups-filters.
One common bug that people are running into with Fedora 16 is that CUPS is no longer enabled after upgrade from an earlier version of Fedora (fresh installs are unaffected).
This has already been reported in Bugzilla, and a test update is available.
There is also an Ask Fedora answer about it.
It’s that time again. Fedora 16′s Printing Test Day is tomorrow, Thursday October 6th. Come along and help make printing work better on Fedora!
The Test Day page has instructions on what you need and how to test.
This is a quick demonstration of how to implement a D-Bus method in Python using asynchronous callbacks.
I recently added support in system-config-printer for determining the best driver to use for a particular printer. This is an expensive operation, largely because of the time it takes to get a list of available drivers from CUPS, and the Python program providing the D-Bus service also provides other services. I wanted the program to be able to deal with other callers while the CUPS operation was in progress. Here’s how that was done.
The Avahi support for CUPS has been ported to 1.5.0 now. I’ve updated the git repository (tracking upstream CUPS, as well as having feature branches for Avahi):
git://fedorapeople.org/home/fedora/twaugh/public_html/cups-avahi.git
Fedora packages for F-16 and rawhide have been built.