Why Have All This Documentation?

We are striving to make CUPS supportable by all vendors. Documentation is a "must" for software as complex as a printing system. Having complete documentation and portable code will go a long way towards making CUPS a standard for all UNIX vendors.

Also, we need this documentation internally to support our products anyways, so making it available publicly isn't adding any extra work.

Finally, the documentation and code can be used by system administrators to determine potential security hazards and do performance tuning.