Re: [Gimp-print-devel] While we're on the subject of MacOS builds..

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

> On Nov 30, 2020, at 10:19 AM, Matt Broughton <wal...@ma...> wrote:
> 
> Michael,
>> On Nov 30, 2020, at 7:25 AM, Michael Sweet <ms...@ms...> wrote:
>> 
>> Solomon,
>> 
>>> On Nov 30, 2020, at 6:59 AM, Solomon Peachy <pi...@sh...> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Signed PGP part
>>> We're still having problems where the 'usb' backend is being chosen
>>> instead of the gutenprint backend, and it's not obvious how (if at all)
>>> the user is supposed to figure this out.
>>> 
>>> Ireally we'd use the USB backend's blacklist mechanism but clearly that
>>> is configured differently on MacOS.
>> 
>> I don't believe that the macOS USB backend supports the notion of blacklisting, just redirecting which class driver gets used for IO.  So for macOS we'd need to provide an equivalent version of the gutenprint backend, along with codeless kexts, to handle those printers' IO needs.
>> 
>> (and yes it would really be super-helpful if printer vendors stopped making non-standard aka broken USB printer implementations...)
> 
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>> ________________________
>> Michael Sweet
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>> 
> 
> Didn't we try that a while ago and we couldn't get it to work?
> 
> 
> Matt
> 

Solomon,
What does the user have to do to get the correct backend associated with the printer?
Matt