Changeset 648

Timestamp:

06/18/05 00:03:56 (19 years ago)

Author:

jerome

Message:

3.00 is now out !
Official packages available later in the night...

Location:

tea4cups/trunk

Files:

• NEWS (modified) (2 diffs)
• tea4cups (modified) (3 diffs)
• tea4cups.conf (modified) (3 diffs)

tea4cups/trunk/NEWS

@@ -4 +4 @@
 
 (c) 2005 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
+(c) 2005 Peter Stuge <stuge-tea4cups@cdy.org>
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -22 +23 @@
 Tea4CUPS News :
 
+  * 3.00 :
+  
+    - Tees don't exist anymore. Only prehooks and posthooks remain.
+      
+    - Prehooks can now send datas to Posthooks through pipes.
+    
+    - Major rewrite of the subprocess management code, thanks to Peter Stuge.
+    
   * 2.12alpha :
 

tea4cups/trunk/tea4cups

@@ -39 +39 @@
 from struct import unpack
 
-version = "2.12alpha3_unofficial"
+version = "3.00_unofficial"
 
 class TeeError(Exception):
@@ -777 +777 @@
         if pid == 0 :
             if self.InputFile is None :
-                f=open(self.dataFile, "rb")
+                f = open(self.dataFile, "rb")
                 os.dup2(f.fileno(), 0)
                 f.close()
@@ -791 +791 @@
                 status = os.waitpid(pid, 0)[1]
             except OSError, (err, msg) :
-                if err == 4 and self.gotSigTerm :
+                if (err == 4) and self.gotSigTerm :
                     os.kill(pid, signal.SIGTERM)
                     killed = 1

tea4cups/trunk/tea4cups.conf

@@ -83 +83 @@
 # since the first one may be empty depending on your printer driver.
 
-# Some hooks : prehooks and posthooks
+# Some prehooks and posthooks
 #
 # Prehooks are guaranteed to be launched
@@ -95 +95 @@
 # An additionnal environment variable is made available to posthooks,
 # named TEASTATUS which contains the exitcode of the real CUPS backend.
-# The normal value is 0, meaning that the real CUPS backend exited
+# If defined, the normal value is 0, meaning that the real CUPS backend exited
 # successfully. Any other value indicates that a problem occured
 # in the CUPS backend which handles the transmission of the job
@@ -134 +134 @@
 # The prehook will use the history file to filter out duplicate jobs
 # checkdupes is an hypothetical command which exits -1 if the current print
-# job is a duplicate (same MD5 sum already found in history)
+# job is a duplicate (same MD5 sum already found in history).
+#
+# NB : Beware of some software which embed the job printing time into the
+# PostScript job : two identical jobs may have different MD5 checksums
+# if they differ only by the value of the '%%CreationDate:' PostScript 
+# comment !
 #prehook_to_filter_duplicates : /usr/local/bin/checkdupes $TEAMD5SUM /tmp/jobmd5sums
 #posthook_to_filter_duplicates : echo "$TEAJOBID : $TEAMD5SUM" >>/tmp/jobmd5sums
+
+# A particular prehook can send datas to the posthook
+# of the same name automatically through pipes :
+# The file /tmp/result1 will contain the output of prehook_dialog1
+# prehook_dialog1 : echo "This is pipe #1"
+# posthook_dialog1 : cat >/tmp/result1
+# The file /tmp/result2 will contain the output of prehook_dialog2
+# prehook_dialog2 : echo "This is pipe #2"
+# posthook_dialog2 : cat >/tmp/result2