Hi Johannes, Johannes Meixner writes:
> Hello Olaf > > On Sep 12 17:30 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt): >> Johannes Meixner writes: > ... >>> I wonder if support for parallel port scanners is still needed? >> >> Me wonders too. > ... >> You could build your SANE library packages without the backends >> for parallel scanners and see how many bug reports you get. > > I think I will do this. Good. Just keep sane-devel informed ;-) > Reason: > > Since May 19 2015 I had disabled build for parallel port for > our HPLIP package (HP's printer and scanner drivers) and > up to now I did not get a single question or complaint from > openSUSE Tumbleweed users - Tumbleweed is a rolling release, see > https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed > > In openSUSE 13.2 our HPLIP package has parallel port support. > > I assume that openSUSE Tumbleweed users are not too different > compared to openSUSE 13.2 users regarding what kind of > scanners they use so that in the end I assume nobody would > complain when parallel port scanners are no longer supported. Scanners don't use ink (but some may need non-empty cartridges in order to scan nevertheless). That means that they tend to stay around for a fair bit longer than printers. That notwithstanding, give it a try and let sane-devel know how things go/went. We haven't had any people here yet that got alarmed about me wondering about dropping it ;-) SCSI is another matter. >>> As a first step parallel port scanner drivers could be >>> no longer built by default e.g. via something like >>> configure --without-parport >>> by default. >> >> Having such an option would make the above a lot easier. > > I think when there is not yet such an option it is not really > needed to introduce it now for something that will be sooner > or later completely dropped. Thanks. I changed that from TODO to DONT on my list ;-) -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 Support Free Software Support the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/donate https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
