http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8352 --- Comment #18 from Galen Charlton <gmcharlt@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Kyle M Hall from comment #16)
(In reply to Galen Charlton from comment #14)
+1 to taking advantage of the existing structure for defining print queues.
I'm afraid I don't believe this to be as good an idea as it may have seemed at first. It appears that admin/printers.pl has been hidden since 2008, 8 years ago. The schema for this table would need to be completely recreated as the existing one does not fit with the data needed for Net::Printer. Even worse, the code itself is extremely broken and would have to be rewritten from scratch.
I've sent Chris a query regarding whether he's got the current print queue stuff working for any of his libraries.
So, in short, we wouldn't be taking advantage of the existing structure for defining print queues, because it would all need to be completely thrown away and totally rewritten, including the printers table itself.
Agreed there are some changes that would be required.
I'm not really seeing what the advantage would be to defining the printers from the web interface either. In fact, it seems even a bit unwanted perhaps. Printer configuration is a system administration task. I don't see a great advantage to allowing librarians to alter the printer data from a web interface.
Disagree. Particularly since Net::Printer talks to the printer directly, there isn't any server-side configuration of setting up lpr queues as seems to be required for the current printer queue approach. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.