On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 03:05:23PM +0100, Graham Trott wrote:
A cautionary tale for anyone producing end-user software. Also an amusing and informative read.
The funny thing is that setting up cups has to be the simplest operation compared to all of the other alternatives. It is certainly one of the best applications I have seen with numerous different types of front end so that you can configure it by hand, via a web interface or via a GUI app similar to how you would configure a printer on Windows (and with a bit of tweaking you set it up on one computer and all the computers on the local network will detect the printers available and automagically set them up for you).
Personally I suspect that esr was taking the wrong approach to this and tackling it with an old unix philosophy, also he was a principle author of fetchmail which isn't easy to configure... IIRC cups is also the default print spooler in Mac OS X (well it was in at least one version I have used) which should say something about it and its capabilites also.
Oh and I personally don't care much for esr since he has some quite nasty extremist racist and homophobic opinions, personally the less we hear from him the better imho.
Adam