Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:31:57 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: papowell@astart.com Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <v04210105b5794242a6dc@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20000621221636.A4137@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000621221636.A4137@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
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At 10:16 PM +0000 6/21/00, Nik Clayton wrote: >Patrick wants feedback on whether or not FreeBSD would be >interested in adopting LPRng as our official LPR implementation, >(src/contrib/lprng, presumably). I said I'd raise the issue >on -arch, and then, not being much of a printer maven, step >back while everyone talks the issue back and forth. Given that it is like pulling teeth to get anyone to add an update to our current version of lpr, I suppose this is a good thing. I have written multiple updates to freebsd's lpr over the past year and a half, and I think I am averaging about six months between the time I send in a patch and the time it is applied. In general, it takes me five times more work to get someone to apply a patch than it takes me to write the damn patch in the first place. Mind you, I did have one patch that was applied within about 24 hours of writing it, so the average is even more amazing. Presumably Patrick will be given direct access to supporting lprNG in the base system, because god knows he won't have the patience to deal with the current lack of interest. Having followed the lprNG mailing list for a year or so, it's clear that lprNG is a much busier project than FreeBSD's lpr has been. (even though Freebsd's lpr has improved a lot in the last few years). I guess another question comes to mind. If freebsd users do have updates they need in lprNG, how easy will it be to feed those back into the base system? --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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