[Koha-bugs] [Bug 8352] Add automatic printing of 'hold to pull' notices

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8352

--- Comment #16 from Kyle M Hall <kyle at bywatersolutions.com> ---
(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.

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.

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.

Any thoughts?

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