Todo For This Week
- Hack udev-config-printer to startup ippusbd
- Decide if ippusbd should be a separate package or part of cups-filters as Till suggested
- Switch to automake if ippusbd is to be part of cups-filters
Completed This Week
- Added http handling, does not support chunked transport or session reuse
- Looked at automake, not as bad as its reputation
- Setup Travis CI
- Setup Coverity, which has already caught two tricky bugs
Todo Next Week
- This time I’ll add basic usb connecting
- Refactor to segregate http specific structs from the generic message and packet structs
I have proven one thing over these four weeks: I cannot make a good weekly todo list. This week had fantastic progress yet it was on the complete opposite side of ippusbd from the usb handling I promised.
Next week should bring initial USB support but I expect proper basic USB handling to take two weeks. USB is a new area for me and I can only expect delays.
One thing I have decided on is I want ippusbd to be a stand-alone package. Till suggested merging ippusbd into the cups-filters package which would work but I want to take on the responsibility of maintaining my code long-term. In either case it should help adoption of printer under linux if a complete IPP print path can be installed without traditional filters, which a sperate ippusbd is a part of. Our full print stack is too heavy for distros like Android or Chromeos but IPP only might be light enough.
