Re: haiku-printingkit-cvs

<[email protected]> Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:30:24 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbeos.printing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Karsten,

> while calling jam haiku-printingkit-cvs, i noticed that the generated
> package puts drivers and transport add-ons in the right place, but plac=
es
> print_server and Printers preflet in a folder called haiku-printingkit-=
cvs
> on the desktop. Is there any specific reason for this or should this be
> adjusted?

This package dates to old time (hence the -cvs suffix, which indicates ve=
ry young period in formely-known-openbeos haiku development ;) ) when the=
 printing kit was mainly built as replacement for BeOS systems. I guess t=
he package was modeled after the other now-defunct *-cvs packages were th=
e server/preflet where not installed automatically in place, the adventur=
ous downloader(s) were supposed to do that themselves, taking the respons=
ability in the process.
 =20
Anyway, today, this package doesn't make that sense anymore, even if the =
printing kit could still be used as a drop-in replacement for BeOS. If ma=
intaining such package still make sense, at least we should rename the su=
ffix into "-svn" (r better, -r<revision> !).=20

Bye,
  Philippe.