From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Mike Easter wrote:   
   > The 1.4 cups came before cups got in bed w/ apple. Everything at   
   > github related to cups is now in an apple subdirectory; so that may   
   > have intro'd some major v. number changes.   
      
   Ohhhh.   
      
   > Apple licensed CUPS for macOS in 2002, and in February 2007 Apple   
   > purchased CUPS and hired Michael to continue its development as an   
   > open source project.   
      
   > In December 2019, Michael left Apple to start Lakeside Robotics. In   
   > September 2020 he teamed up with the OpenPrinting developers to fork   
   > Apple CUPS to continue its development. Today Apple CUPS is the   
   > version of CUPS that is provided with macOS® and iOS® while   
   > OpenPrinting CUPS is the version of CUPS being further developed by   
   > OpenPrinting for all operating systems.   
      
   'Our' openprinting cups release hx back to '20 Nov is 2.3.3; in order to   
   get back to 1.4 I have to dig all the way back to '13 Nov.   
      
   This is seen at the github cups *openprinting* which is NOT under an   
   Apple subdir.   
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
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