[sane-devel] upcoming iscan release

[russbucket]

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 19:47, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just before I leave on holidays until January 10, 2006, I'd like to
> give you all a heads up on the next "Image Scan! for Linux" release.
> The exact release date has not been fixed yet, but I think it will
> release around December 27, 2005.
>
> iscan-1.18.0 adds support for the Perfection 4490 PHOTO (aka GT-X750)
> via yet another binary-only, i386-only plugin.
>
> Under the hood, the plugin mechanism has been changed so that you can
> now use the epkowa backend without these non-free plugins.  The iscan
> frontend still requires one non-free plugin, though.  While the source
> tarball still contains the BLOBs in its non-free/ directory, the RPM
> has been split already.  There are now a single core package and seven
> plugin packages.  Unless you have an EPSON scanner that needs a plugin
> in order to work, the core package suffices.
>
> When compiling from source, you should be able to just
>
>   $ ./configure
>   $ make
>   $ su -c 'make install'
>
> even on non-i386 architectures.  In that case, the frontend will not
> be built and the plugins won't get installed.
>
> BTW, the BLOBs are scheduled for removal from the tarball with the
> release after this one.
>
> Hope this helps & Season's Greetings,
> --
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First have a good Holiday. now  my question. Will this release work with the 
CX6600 All-in-one. I have not been able to get the last release to work. 
-- 
Russ