Guess this should go to the list too...
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Subject: Re: [sane-devel] SANE2 commitment
Date: Monday 18 December 2006 08:50
From: "Martin Owens" <doctormo gmail.com>
To: "Gerhard Jaeger" <gerhardgjaeger.de>
I'm fine about it not being linux only, I just think we're
limiting
our options to be all things to all platforms.
For instance, the back ends them selves do not need to be
platform
specific. but i believe sane integration 'how the backends
are used'
should be.
Because at the end of the day all you really need to do is
have a
small amount of plugin code for linux hal, same for windows
hal, other
archs will need more thicker backend but that doesn't mean
you need to
force it on operating systems that already manage devices
without
blathering.
If it turns out to be non-trivial then perhaps there ort to
be a linux
sane, call it less-sane 'linux embeded scanner support -
sane' and we
can all have a chuckle and use the same backend driver code.
I just can't believe that we're stuck in the stone age of
scanner
device management because of bsd, I suspect that this is
exactly the
same reason gutten print is having device problems too, but
at least
they have better device code.
On 12/18/06, Gerhard Jaeger <gerhardgjaeger.de> wrote:
> On Sunday 17 December 2006 22:47, Martin Owens wrote:
> > Thanks for the link,
> >
> > See it sounds like you want to make the same
mistakes, instead of
> > looking for a better way to organise scanning in
linux your looking at
> > how to better organise functionality in sane.
>
> Just for the records: SANE is not intended to be Linux
only!
>
> > The problem is that the way scanning is organised
is crack-pot and out
> > dated. we are duplicating effort for no good
reason other than to be
> > stuck in our rut.
>
> He, he...
>
> > I see so many opportunities to make sane a slim
line routing code
> > instead of a bloated detection and scanning
library.
>
> Okay, go ahead, make some proposals -but keep in mind,
that we will
> not only focus on Linux.
>
> - Gerhard
>
> [SNIPSNAP]
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