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Revision 688, 2.8 kB (checked in by jerome, 18 years ago)

Now serializes accesses to the same device by different print queues
or print servers, just like PyKota.

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1# $Id$
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3Tea4CUPS : Tee for CUPS
4
5(c) 2005, 2006 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
6(c) 2005 Peter Stuge <stuge-tea4cups@cdy.org>
7This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
10(at your option) any later version.
11
12This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
15GNU General Public License for more details.
16
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18along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
19Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
20
21=============================================================================
22
23Tea4CUPS News :
24
25  * 3.12 (2006-08-11) :
26 
27    - Serializes accesses to the same device from different queues
28      or print servers through file locking facilities (works over
29      NFS).
30   
31    - Improved support for CUPS 1.2.x and higher.
32   
33    - Allows the administrator to cleanly stop tea4cups with SIGINT.
34   
35    - Added a configurable retry directive to the configuration file.
36   
37    - Fixed several minor bugs.
38   
39    - Improved the installation instructions and the sample configuration
40      file.
41   
42  * 3.11 :
43 
44    - Fixed an incompatibility with Python 2.1, thanks to Frank
45      Koormann.
46     
47  * 3.10 :
48 
49    - Added filters.
50   
51    - Added the "onfail" directive to tea4cups.conf
52   
53  * 3.02 :
54 
55    - Fixed some problems thanks to pychecker.
56   
57  * 3.01 :
58 
59    - Fixed an IPP parsing bug in some situations.
60   
61  * 3.00 :
62 
63    - Tees don't exist anymore. Only prehooks and posthooks remain.
64     
65    - Prehooks can now send datas to Posthooks through pipes.
66   
67    - Major rewrite of the subprocess management code, thanks to Peter Stuge.
68   
69  * 2.12alpha :
70
71    - Greatly improved the IPP parser.
72
73    - When printing test pages from CUPS' web interface, the empty username
74      is now overwritten with the username CUPS is running as.
75
76  * 2.11 :
77
78    - Now works with old releases of Python (>= 2.1)
79
80    - More powerful error handling at startup time.
81
82    - Ignores errors in posthooks because the job was probably
83      successfully printed so no need to stop the print queue.
84      We log a warning instead in this case.
85
86  * 2.10 :
87
88    - Makes the IPP message filename and the Job's billing code available.
89
90  * 2.00 :
91
92    - Introduces the notions of pre and post hooks.
93
94    - Prehooks can decide to entirely cancel the print job if needed.
95
96    - Original CUPS backend's exit code is available in posthooks.
97
98    - prehooks, posthooks and tees are now launched in alphabetical order.
99
100  * 1.00 :
101
102    - First Official release.
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