85429 - Need to update release notes for Xprint module/Xprt

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Printing: Xprint, defect, P1)

Description

[Masaki Katakai]

I understand we should update the following page
according to the currect implementation,

 http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/xprint/release.html

Comment 1

[Masaki Katakai]

Assign to Roland.

Comment 2

[Roland Mainz]

Wow... I never thought that there is such a page... :-)

Any suggestions what we should include into that page ? Tobias/Jay ?

Accepting bug...

Comment 3

[Roland Mainz]

ToDo:
- the URL should be http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/xprint/
- Add links to patches for Solaris 7/8
- Add links to X.org sources and instructions how to build libXp/Xprt binaries
- Add links to Linux x86 Xprt binary + config tar.gz + RPM
- Add comment that Xfree86 CVS and binaries build from it are broken
- Xprint/Xprt FAQ
- Mozilla Xprint module FAQ/troubleshooting
- Add BugZilla query link to all open Xprint module bugs
- Planns/Roadmap/Future of Xprint in Mozilla

How can I modify the page without CVS access ?

Comment 4

[Roland Mainz]

Does anyone know how I can browse the CVS _dir_ for the xprint module docs ?
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-org//html/projects/intl/xprint/ does not work...
;-(
I'd like to know which files are "there" and what info they contain...

Comment 5

[Roland Mainz]

CC:'ing endico to get some help with this issue...

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

pushing out. 0.9.2 is done. (querying for this string will get you the list of
the 0.9.2 bugs I moved to 0.9.3)

Comment 7

[Roland Mainz]

Uh... BAD. Retargeting to milestone 0.9.4... - but increating priority for this
one.

Comment 8

[Dawn Endico]

Attachment: cvs version 1.3 of mozilla-org/html/projects/intl/xprint/release.html

Comment 9

[Roland Mainz]

I am currently building a FAQ available under
http://puck.informatik.med.uni-giessen.de/people/gisburn/work/xprint/Xprint_FAQ.txt
Comments welcome...

Comment 10

[Roland Mainz]

How can get get checkin permission to the WWW docs at http://www.mozilla.org/ ?

Comment 11

[Arthit Suriyawongkul]

Mozilla 1.0 already released.
do we already has an updated Xprt release notes?

Comment 12

[Roland Mainz]

Arthit Suriyawongkul wrote:
> Mozilla 1.0 already released.
> do we already has an updated Xprt release notes?

I am sorry, I do not have any Mozilla-specific yet.

I have a FAQ
(http://puck.informatik.med.uni-giessen.de/people/gisburn/work/xprint/Xprint_FAQ.txt)
and some quickguides
(http://puck.informatik.med.uni-giessen.de/people/gisburn/work/xprint/quickguide_hebrew_iso_8859_8.txt
+
http://puck.informatik.med.uni-giessen.de/people/gisburn/work/xprint/quickguide_koi8_r.txt).
I started to hack a couple of new docs for Mozilla's Xprint module (mainly
covering design) but I was servely hit by hordes of emails with questions,
congratulations, suggestions, complains, bug reports (the Xprt binary tarball
(e.g. fixed version of /usr/X11/bin/Xprt) for Linux x86
(http://puck.informatik.med.uni-giessen.de/download/xprint_linux_x86_006.tar.gz)
was downloaded 3722 times since the release of mozilla 1.0 until today); in
parallel I am working on http://xprint.mozdev.org/ (that's one step to
contribute my Xprt (Xprint server side) fixes back to X.org), I am trying to
give instructions to two other vendors who want to ship their own Xprt servers
for their platforms, some new fixes for Xprt, a TrueType font engine and
TrueType font download (e.g. Type42/Type11) and I am doing some development on
Mozilla's Xprint module (see meta bug 149768 ("Make Xprint not suck in
MachV/NS7"); the dependicies for this bug should be put into release notes for
mozilla's Xprint module... they are all fixed in todays "trunk" and I hopefully
get approval for 1.0.1 that we ship Netscape 7 with a perfectly working Xprint
module).

I wish someone would employ me for this stuff that I could spend more time into
it...

Comment 13

[Arthit Suriyawongkul]

thanks Roland, your FAQs really help :)

Comment 14

[Roland Mainz]

Arthit Suriyawongkul wrote:
> thanks Roland, your FAQs really help :)

Mhhh, thanks! :)
Comments, contributions etc. for the FAQ/docs are welcome...

BTW: You may try tomorrows "trunk" builds (or build from todays CVS) ... the
fontmetrics code has been improved a lot in the last three days (see the
dependicies in bug 149768).
I've done some tests with a 100 DPI iso10646-1 BDF font and the results look
(very[1]) good (arabic, hebrew, thai, japanese, chinese etc.) ... :)

[1]=depends what you expect from a bitmap font... having TrueType iso10646-1
fonts and/or PS Type1 fonts (for specific encodings like hebrew) gives far
better results (however my Linux Xprt does not support TrueType yet)

Comment 15

[Roland Mainz]

endico:
Requesting permission for creating a new dir under
mozilla-org/html/projects/xprint (Xprint module has grown beyond the "intl"
area) and build a whole new set of docs there, please ?

Comment 16

[Dawn Endico]

go ahead with mozilla-org/html/projects/xprint. Add an item for it 
in mozilla-org/html/index.html with a short description of the
project.

Comment 17

[Roland Mainz]

I am mainly "done" with creating the first version of the new Xprint module
pages under http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xprint/ -
comments/feedback/rants/etc. very welcome... :)

Comment 18

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Any work is going on here or can the bug get closed?

Comment 19

[Masaki Katakai]

Hi Henrik,

Yes, could you please close this bug report. Thank you!!

Comment 20

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Closing bug as WONTFIX.