Vassilis Perantzakis (alias vasper) has been working porting Haiku the last two days, as he restarted work on BeOS Max V4. While talking to BeOS friends on IRC, suggestions came on why not trying to get CUPS ported to BeOS R5. Vassilis downloaded the sources from ZETA-OS.com, and started playing with it. After 3 hours he had managed to compile more than 70% of CUPS. A few functions were missing from BeOS, but these has been added.

Yesterday Vassilis posted another newsupdate on Haikuware, telling that he had managed to compile the Cups 1.1.23 source tree, but that drivers were remaining and that it gave a Missing library error on startup. He belived that it might be caused by some missing libraries that are dynamically bound to CUPS.

In the following days he will try to compile the rest of the cups tree as it contains the drivers and a database driven system for intergrating the drivers, called Foomatic. To build Foomatic, he will need the UNIX utility called File. The sources of an older version have been downloaded, and it compiled after tampering a little with its code.

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Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-08-01 04:17:44 If anyone who knows the BeOS API (specifically the Print kit) is interested in helping me, please feel free to email me.

good job Written by nutela on 2007-08-01 09:08:25 Nice to see yet another step made! Thank you Vasper.

And? Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-08-09 10:53:22 What is the purpose of this exactly? I'm not sure of understanding the advance of having CUPS on BeOS.

Written by vasper on 2007-08-13 03:35:59 Having support for 1000 printers without having to write 1000 native printer drivers

Re: And? Written by biffuz on 2007-08-13 10:05:43 Drivers for nearly every printer in existance isn't enough for you?

Hooray Vasper Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-08-13 17:20:39 Excellent work as always I wish we had more people with your talent and drive.

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