Category: Software

I just wrote a short piece about how the Fedora CUPS administration tool (system-config-printer) works: Abstract: This document aims to give a brief introduction to the CUPS administration tool that was written for Fedora Core 6, system-config-printer, and the current state of this tool’s development. Read the full thing if you’re interested.

I’m about to start writing some proper API documentation for pycups, and I’ve been looking around for short-cuts. Seems like epydoc is just what I’m after, so long as there are no catches. I want to be able to write the documentation in the Python doc strings, and pycups is a Python extension written in…

I just created a 0.7.74.x branch for system-config-printer, for bug fixes only. Fedora 8 will follow this branch for the time being.

I’ve updated CUPS in Fedora devel to the 1.3b1 beta package. The cups-1.3-0.b1.2.fc8 build has support for Kerberos and DNS-SD (Bonjour/Zeroconf). The most recent build of selinux-policy is needed to get zeroconf working.

Just read about Smolt statistics, and it looks like it has the potential to be useful for making sure commonly used devices work well with Fedora. I just wish the printer devices page had useful information in.