Two CUPS Bugs

[perthie]

My mistake. I didn't have usb-utils installed, so I didn't get a full compile.

[Juanito]

Compiling the latest version of hplip and using cups-1.4, I've managed to print without foomatic-rip/foomatic-rip-hplip and without a ppd installed.

It seems hpcups.drv and/or ../filter/hpcups somehow makes up a driver/ppd dynamically.

So - no perl5 dep and no ppd - happy days 

..but still plenty of testing to do.

[perthie]

This is the same technique as Gutenprint's dynamic PPDs. There are two key files something like:

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/usr/local/lib/cups/driver/drv
CUPS runs it to generate HP PPDs on-the-fly. I believe that it is now included in CUPS 1.4.

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/usr/local/share/cups/drv/hp/hpijs.drv
This is the file of printer information that CUPS uses to create the PPDs. It will be coming from your HPLIP package.

If foomatic-rip is replaced with the compiled version, maybe Perl isn't needed at all to set up a printer.

[Juanito]

If foomatic-rip is replaced with the compiled version, maybe Perl isn't needed at all to set up a printer.

I tested the C version of foomatic-rip with an old version of hplip and it seemed to work OK, so I'll post it once I get everything tidied away.