Re: RFC: New release and abandoning MacOS?

Solomon Peachy via Gimp-print-devel <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Jun 2023 21:19:47 -0400

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On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 07:44:55PM -0500, Matt Broughton wrote:
> I am not sure I know all of the macOS issues or how difficult it would 
> be to accomodate them.  I do know that the v5.3.x macOS releases are a 
> show stopper for printers that can print on CDs or DVDs. No Printer 
> Features can be seen in the GUI.  Even trying to see the Printer 
> Features will crash some applications. PPDs can be modified to resolve 
> this issue.  Alternatively, genppd.c can be modified.  I have a 
> modified genppd.c we used for testing that fixes the issue.

Since this is due to a PPD construct, I assume this problem happens with 
remote network printers (set up to use a PPD instead of IPP) as well as 
locally-attached ones?

Meanwhile, what's the technical argument against merging this change?

 - Solomon
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