RE: CUPS hacking

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- ahmad khalifa <ahmadkhalifa at hotmail dot com> wrote:
> btw, im lost in that CUPS stuff, i need a suitable way to debug. i keep
>    applying changes , then making then making install, then copying the
>    font file, then printing. that way it'll take me 6 month to finish it.
>    and besides all that, my cups daemon keeps terminating and crashing
>    and does all strange stuff. i looked aroung all cups docs and faqs.
>    any suggestions there ?

I think a couple of things are in order here,

 1. Without _any_ modifications does CUPS work for you ?  If not then
    I think the cups development community needs to correct any problems
    or misconfiguration (ie. we need it working flawlessly for you from
    the get-go).
 2. Once #1 is solved, we need to tell the CUPS developers our plans
    and get any insight they might have on what we can/should do in terms
    of adding Arabic.  This would also be the time to ask them about how
    best to debug the code and the entire process.
 3. Do the hacking you are doing now :-)

Similar to what has been done in PuTTY (the above outlined process is
the same mind you), the best recourse is to engage the application's
developers and get their thoughts and comments before blazing in with
changes.  Do they have a list or an email we can use to contact their
developers to initiate contact ?

Just a suggestion.

Salam.

 - Nadim


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