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Backported PyKota's locking mechanism.

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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.
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14MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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19Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
20
21=============================================================================
22
23Tea4CUPS News :
24
25  * 3.13alpha (2006-11-07) :
26 
27    - Backported locking mechanism from PyKota.
28   
29  * 3.12 (2006-08-11) :
30 
31    - Serializes accesses to the same device from different queues
32      or print servers through file locking facilities (works over
33      NFS).
34   
35    - Improved support for CUPS 1.2.x and higher.
36   
37    - Allows the administrator to cleanly stop tea4cups with SIGINT.
38   
39    - Added a configurable retry directive to the configuration file.
40   
41    - Fixed several minor bugs.
42   
43    - Improved the installation instructions and the sample configuration
44      file.
45   
46  * 3.11 :
47 
48    - Fixed an incompatibility with Python 2.1, thanks to Frank
49      Koormann.
50     
51  * 3.10 :
52 
53    - Added filters.
54   
55    - Added the "onfail" directive to tea4cups.conf
56   
57  * 3.02 :
58 
59    - Fixed some problems thanks to pychecker.
60   
61  * 3.01 :
62 
63    - Fixed an IPP parsing bug in some situations.
64   
65  * 3.00 :
66 
67    - Tees don't exist anymore. Only prehooks and posthooks remain.
68     
69    - Prehooks can now send datas to Posthooks through pipes.
70   
71    - Major rewrite of the subprocess management code, thanks to Peter Stuge.
72   
73  * 2.12alpha :
74
75    - Greatly improved the IPP parser.
76
77    - When printing test pages from CUPS' web interface, the empty username
78      is now overwritten with the username CUPS is running as.
79
80  * 2.11 :
81
82    - Now works with old releases of Python (>= 2.1)
83
84    - More powerful error handling at startup time.
85
86    - Ignores errors in posthooks because the job was probably
87      successfully printed so no need to stop the print queue.
88      We log a warning instead in this case.
89
90  * 2.10 :
91
92    - Makes the IPP message filename and the Job's billing code available.
93
94  * 2.00 :
95
96    - Introduces the notions of pre and post hooks.
97
98    - Prehooks can decide to entirely cancel the print job if needed.
99
100    - Original CUPS backend's exit code is available in posthooks.
101
102    - prehooks, posthooks and tees are now launched in alphabetical order.
103
104  * 1.00 :
105
106    - First Official release.
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