Re: Migrating PyCups to Python CFFI for libcups 3.x

On 4/3/25 10:52, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
> Sounds good! cffi is present at least in Centos, so I don't have a dependency 
> issue - I'm not sure about other maintainers (added Johannes and Thorsten I know 
> of).
> 

It is also in Ubuntu in Main (package python3-cffi, upstream version 1.17.1), so 
no problem using it.

> What we have to make sure (based on the example) that path to .so file is not 
> hardcoded, but configurable during setup.
> 
> Thank you for working on this!
> 
> 
> P.S. I see two mails in the list with almost the same content - is there a 
> difference?
> 

Zdenek, Soumyadeep has posted it to the list twice because the first version got 
rejected. So in the list it is only once (I checked the archives). You see it 
twice because you got explicitly CCed.

    Till