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Fri Feb 29 13:31:58 UTC 2008


that of the ordinary user because you can not provide both
iscan-2.11.0 and iscan-2.10.0 next to one another.  You either don't
support the models added in 2.11.0 (and later?) or drop the models
that require an incompatible plugin.  Either choice is bad because you
will put your users out in the cold.

> Therefore we cannot provide iscan-2.11.0 for openSUSE 11.0
> because we cannot provide matching plugins for Epson's
> proprietary crap.
>
> Does Epson really like when their proprietary crap does no longer
> work out of the box (at least on 32-bit Linux distributions)?
>
> By the way regarding (*):
> If there was a directory where all available plugins are listed,
> I could check what is actually available.
> I asked for such a directory several times but it seems
> the Epson or Epson Avasys management is not interested
> to help distributors to get their stuff well packaged.

Thanks for putting it so bluntly.  I hope things will change for the
better.

BTW, as of 2008-04-01 our company changed its name, again.  It is now
AVASYS Corporation, without the EPSON.

Hope this helps,
-- 
Olaf Meeuwissen                   FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS Corporation
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