Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 10:54:17PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > I have an OKI scanner which has a neat little linux app for running it > > from a linux desktop. However it hasn't been updated from python 2.7 > > days and I'm looking at ways I might get it to run on my recently > > upgraded Debian 12 system. > > I'm pretty sure that someone somewhere is maintaining a Python 2 > compatible interpreter so I'd probably install that from source > somewhere and use that as the interpreter just for this one app. > > It is my understanding that no other project can call itself "Python" > due to trademark laws so forks of Python 2 have to call themselves > something else. One example would be Tauthon: > > https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon > > I have never tried it. > > It seems like a lot of work for what must be itself an abandoned app > (otherwise it would have Python 3 support by now). > It's a fairly old printer but it is still supported (drivers etc. for windows 11) but they've never updated the Linux scanner driver, I don't suppose there's that much demand for it. It's a very neat little app though so I'd like to keep using it.
-- Chris Green ยท
