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List:       gimp-print-devel
Subject:    Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Mac OS X issue
From:       Steve Letter via Gimp-print-devel <gimp-print-devel () lists ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2021-05-09 20:39:24
Message-ID: A5DC2B8D-270A-4A99-B8B9-E7F177CBD349 () yahoo ! com
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On the contrary. I can build just fine. My only issue has been automating the \
process. And that only because I haven't had the impetus to do it. 

Steve Letter
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> On May 9, 2021, at 12:46 PM, Matt Broughton <walterwego@macosx.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > On May 8, 2021, at 4:52 PM, Solomon Peachy <pizza@shaftnet.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 05:05:41PM -0400, Robert Krawitz wrote:
> > > I'm sort of leaning toward simply changing the base unit for the PPD 
> > > files to 0.5 point.  That will still make for a lot of option choices 
> > > and we'll need to test to make sure that that doesn't cause additional 
> > > problems.  What do people think?
> > 
> > I think this is the least worst option..
> > 
> > (And I say that as someone whose use cases aren't affected one way or 
> > another)
> > 
> > - Solomon
> 
> I think I agree with Solomon here.  I do have some other thoughts/concerns,
> 1.  Is changing the base unit going to cause problems with cupstestppd ?
> 
> 2.  We have had the messiness of 'mm' 'points' and 'inches' for quite some time.  \
> We saw how ugly it is when this macos bug emerged.  The  bug first appeared with \
> v3.x.  Robert, I know you *really* don't like making big changes even if it the \
> right thing to do. 
> 2a  What problems might this cause with cups-genppdupdate?  There are going to be \
> users that already have modified their PPD defaults through the CUPS web interface \
> or command line.  Also, at least in macos, users can create Custom Presets either \
> for one printer or for all printers in the standard Print Window.  I think this is \
> going to get very messy and problematic very, very quickly.  I may not be thinking \
> correctly on these point or overanalyzing. 
> While the current bug in macos only affects those printers that print on CDs/DVDs, \
> it is still a nasty bug. My immediate concern is to get something out for macos \
> users that won't crash applications when they try to look at and set Printer \
> Features.  I think Steve is having problems getting the ARM binaries to work and to \
> make a fat binary. He will have to let us know where he is.  At this point, I would \
> settle for a x86_64 only release.  I is easier to fend off complaints of not not \
> having native code for the M1 chipset than deal with drivers that can crash \
> applications. As I recall the last patch Robert has us try solved the problem. 
> Matt
> 
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