Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Imprimante Epson

[Robert K. <rl...@al...>]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 14:19:47 -0600, Matt Broughton wrote:
>> On Dec 9, 2019, at 1:59 PM, Matt Broughton <wal...@ma...> wrote:
>>> On Dec 9, 2019, at 12:00 PM, Solomon Peachy <pi...@sh...> wrote:
>>> 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.  
>>> 
>>> I don't know if this has been considered in the past, but is packaging 
>>> gutenprint within brew or macports technically feasible?
>>> 
>>> (And if it is, might it be a better approach than a standalone installer?)
>>> 
>>> - Solomon
>> 
>> 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>
>
> 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.

I definitely don't think that we should use brew or macports as the
distribution mechanism.  My point is to figure out/ask them what they
are doing to get working packages on Catalina and go from there.
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