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14 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 1 story, 13 comments · first 2017-11-10 · latest 2026-06-16
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…including myself. Apple abandoned CUPS years ago, and recently have archived the repo on github: https://github.com/apple/cups All the current development runs in OpenPrinting github: https://github.com/OpenPrinting , and mostly focused on…
comment by ValdikSS · 2026-04-08 · in Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP -
…Gutenprint (and CUPS) deprecated the PPD driver API in CUPS and it doesn’t support them anymore. https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5271 So I assume thats why there’s no maintainers, and probably will never be.
comment by pram · 2025-08-23 · in Gutenprint Discontinues macOS Support -
…their removals. It isn't clear how this affects their CUPS implementation or PostScript printers https://github.com/apple/cups
comment by gardaani · 2023-09-26 · in PostScript’s sudden death in Sonoma -
CUPS is under the Apache License 2.0 , so they can just use it, if they wanted: https://github.com/apple/cups/blob/master/LICENSE They won't of course.
comment by zie · 2023-09-12 · in Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows -
... or unless Apple shipped a buggy version of CUPS: https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5747
comment by yrro · 2022-11-09 · in macOS stores a copy of everything one prints forever [video] -
…a couple of days later to see if it's been removed by cups. [subsequent edit] Maybe you ran into https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5747 , "You really need to use a current release of CUPS. I suspect this is due to a known bug that was…
comment by yrro · 2022-11-09 · in macOS stores a copy of everything one prints forever [video] -
…missed, so I installed it, and the files went away! I also noticed that there has been issues, like https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5538 , related to spool file clean-up. (The fix to that one leaves some decidedly fishy-looking…
comment by Pinus · 2022-11-09 · in macOS stores a copy of everything one prints forever [video] -
…I'm glad CUPS on macOS isn't going to be left behind, but I'm curious what happened there. 1. https://github.com/apple/cups/graphs/contributors 2. https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/graphs/contributors
comment by jwatt · 2021-08-04 · in Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat -
…very active in the fork AFAICT. His Sponsors page: https://github.com/sponsors/michaelrsweet [1] https://github.com/apple/cups/graphs/contributors [2] https://www.msweet.org/blog/2019-12-20-left-apple.html
comment by quazeekotl · 2020-10-16 · in Cups has been forked after Apple supplied only one commit in all of 2020 -
…[1] and cups [2] but those were acquisitions. [1] https://github.com/apple/foundationdb [2] https://github.com/apple/cups
comment by wenc · 2018-11-23 · in Want to Recruit Better Engineers? Open Source Your Code -
…this purpose without the need to release the source code of the resulting driver based on that. [1] https://github.com/apple/cups/blob/branch-2.2/LICENSE.txt
comment by raimue · 2017-11-10 · in CUPS License Change Coming -
…Apple pay for the majority of work too, assuming @michaelrsweet is paid by Apple to work on cups. https://github.com/apple/cups/graphs/contributors
comment by x0x0 · 2017-11-10 · in CUPS License Change Coming -
Here's the commit: https://github.com/apple/cups/commit/e310189747c161ac6e737ee...
comment by notpeter · 2017-11-10 · in CUPS License Change Coming