[sane-devel] SANE frozen in amber ?

2009-06-10 Thread stef
Hello, Here's a little story that happened months ago: my wife wanted to scan a document with our MD6471 run by the genesys backend. She calls me: - It isn't working ! - What is happening ? (as a backend maintainer I rushed, quite upset) - It doesn't

[sane-devel] SANE frozen in amber ?

2009-06-10 Thread Julien BLACHE
stef stef.dev at free.fr wrote: This is why I regret that recent plans to bring a little evolution were postponed over such a mundane thing than a dll version. An frequent I think you still haven't got it. There are plans for changes to the API; Allan reviewed the SANE2 draft but I

[sane-devel] SANE frozen in amber ?

2009-06-10 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:27:41 +0200 Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org wrote: Whatever we do requires careful consideration to produce a better API that will fix the current shortcomings without introducing new ones that we can avoid. (like, say, busy-looping on sane_start(), shrug.) so the plan

[sane-devel] SANE frozen in amber ?

2009-06-10 Thread Julien BLACHE
Alessandro Zummo azummo-lists at towertech.it wrote: Hi, Whatever we do requires careful consideration to produce a better API that will fix the current shortcomings without introducing new ones that we can avoid. (like, say, busy-looping on sane_start(), shrug.) so the plan is whole new

[sane-devel] Most Hackable Scanner?

2009-06-10 Thread Daniel Reetz
Hi All, My summer project is to build a scanner camera. I've done my reading and Googling, and found a few people's projects. I've seen the work by Wandel, http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html Tom Sharpless, http://home.comcast.net/~scancams/ Andrew Davidhazy,

[sane-devel] SANE frozen in amber ?

2009-06-10 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:15:24 +0200 Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org wrote: There are a couple of limitations that cannot be lifted without that, so yes. nice! while we are there, I'd love to have a function to retrieve the scanner maker and model -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo,