Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Imprimante Epson

[Matt B. <wal...@ma...>]

> On Dec 9, 2019, at 1:59 PM, Matt Broughton <wal...@ma...> wrote:
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>> On Dec 9, 2019, at 12:00 PM, Solomon Peachy <pi...@sh...> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 11:14:56AM -0600, Matt Broughton wrote:
>>> As Steve mentioned, there is brew.  There are also macports.org and 
>>> finkproject.org.  They have been around longer than brew.  They both 
>>> support Catalina.  
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>> I don't know if this has been considered in the past, but is packaging 
>> gutenprint within brew or macports technically feasible?
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>> (And if it is, might it be a better approach than a standalone installer?)
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>> - Solomon
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> I think most Mac users would just abandon Gutenprint.  They shout, curse, and/or ask what the heck are they referring to?  In my opinion, it is a pretty heavy burden.  I'm not sure of my terminology, but I have referred to it as installing a whole subsystem but without kernel or GUI.  I have used both of them in the past for a particular purpose and then dumped them.  Personally, I don't think I would use macport.org or finkproject.com on an ongoing basis.  I would just buy cheap, throw away printers or use a linux install under virtual machine.   < /soapbox>
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> Matt

Solomon, I should have prefaced my comments on them being an interesting solution.  Just putting ideas like that out on the list may spark other ideas.  I am sure I was too reactionary to using macports or fink based on my personal experience with therm.

Hmm.  I just took a look at the available ports for macports.  It would seem to be somewhat doable. They do have some gimp-print v4.2.7 drivers and gutenprint 5.3.3 GIMP plugin.
See https://ports.macports.org/ports/category/print/

I would guess that they would need a maintainer.  Even at that, there would be the problem of the complexity for the normal Mac user.

Matt