pyppd 1.0.2

Description:

pyppd 1.0.2

pyppd is a CUPS PPD generator. It holds an compressed archive of PPDs, which
can be listed and retrieved only when needed by CUPS, saving disk space.

Instalation
To install pyppd, you can use:

# pip install pyppd

Or download the source package, uncompress, and run as root:

# python setup.py install

It depends on Python 2.x or 3.x (http://www.python.org) and XZ Utils
(http://tukaani.org/xz/).


Usage
At first, you have to create a PPD archive. For such, put all PPDs (they might
be gzipped) you want to add in the archive inside a single folder (which can
have subfolders), then run:

$ pyppd /path/to/your/ppd/folder

It’ll create pyppd-ppdfile in your current folder. This executable only
works with the same Python version that you used to generate it. You can test
it by running:

$ ./pyppd-ppdfile list

And, for reading a PPD from the archive, simply do:

$ ./pyppd-ppdfile cat pyppd-ppdfile:MY-PPD-FILE.PPD

For CUPS to be able to use your newly-created archive, copy pyppd-ppdfile
to /usr/lib/cups/driver/ and you’re done.
The generated pyppd-ppdfile can be arbitrarily renamed, so that more than
one packed repository can be installed on one system. This can be useful if
you need a better performance, be it in time or memory usage. Note that also
the PPD URIs will follow the new name:

./pyppd−ppdfilelistpyppd−ppdfile:LasterStar/LaserStar−XX100.ppd mv pyppd-ppdfile laserstar
$ ./laserstar list
laserstar:LaserStar/LaserStar-XX100.ppd



Contributors

Till Kamppeter - Original idea, mentoring and feedback. User #0.
Hin-Tak Leung - Lots of technical suggestions.
Martin Pitt - Python 3 port.
Flávio Ribeiro and Diógenes Fernandes - Refactorings and general Python’s best practices tips.
Google’s OSPO - Initial funding at GSoC 2010.



Issues

Add unit tests.
When testing if the PPD generated from the *Product line already exists in a
*1284DeviceID line, we do a case-sensitive test. I think it should be case-
insensitive.
Generate manpage.