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- Excerpts from
- POSIX 1003.7a Printing Small Group Minutes, October 21-24, 1991
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- The meeting started with a review of last quarter's work.
- At the last meeting, the functionality of Palladium and lp
- CLI's was merged into a new set of commands, all starting
- with the prefix "xp." This work was brought into question.
- There were concerns that POSIX shouldn't invent new interfaces.
- The widespread acceptance of OSF's DME product, including USL's
- recent announcement regarding the ACE iniative seemed to
- mitigate the concern about Palladium's limited distribution,
- since it is part of DME. This facts, along with the lack
- of an advocate for lp, led to the abandonment of the xp
- commands and a return of Palladium's pd commands.
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- If 1003.7a is going to meet its ballot date goals, the quesion
- of whether to use lp, pd, a new command set, or some mixture of
- these must be decided for the final time at the next meeting.
- The printing small group urges anyone with an interest in this
- to come to Irvine, California for the January 13-17 POSIX
- meeting, or to send written proposals or arguments.
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- The next debate was about which API to use. There was some
- discussion about adopting Tivoli's "objcall" interface from
- the DME. No one was very familiar with it, but it seemed to
- be a lower level interface, designed for general object management
- rather than printing. Since the SVR4's lp system doesn't have an
- API, this was really a debate about which level of Palladium API
- to use.
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- The high-level interface ("API") was eliminated first, because of its
- limited value added over just calling the CLI. The low-level interface
- ("pdlib + RPC/IDL") was also elimnated because of its close ties to a
- specific RPC mechanism. The middle-level interface ("SPI") was selected.
- It allows developers to write new CLIs and GUIs, but is still manipulating
- the ISO print objects. This interface won't insure interoperability, but
- 1003.7 is counting on its managed object definitions to do that.
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- Items for the Agenda of the January 13-17 Meeting
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- Which command set: pd*, lp*, or some mix. A debate & vote
- Monday during the 1003.7 plenary.
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- Review and update CLI section of draft, particularly rationale
- & test assertions. Decide on required vs optional commands
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- Review and update SPI section of draft. Work on SPI
- test assertions.
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- Address 1003.6 (POSIX Security) concerns.
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- Address Internationalization concerns.
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- Additions to ISO Print Objects
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- Volume-Number: Volume 26, Number 21
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