[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-20 Thread abel deuring
Alessandro Zummo wrote: > > Hello developers, > >since there seems to be interest in developing sane2, I've decided > to start this thread in order to collect the commitment of each developer. > > I'm willing to port the epson driver to sane2, help porting the > coolscan driver and handl

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-19 Thread Étienne Bersac
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20061217/d5528193/attachment.pgp From bersac...@laposte.net Sun Dec 17 22:36:23 2006 From: bersac...@laposte.net (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C9tienne?= Bersac) Date: Tue Dec 19 19:42:50 2006 Subject: [sane-devel

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-19 Thread Martin Owens
> > > > You can then change your clients to use hal and simply call dbus > > commands to scan etc. > [...] > > That would be really nice. I wonder if this will only work on linux. > What about *BSD, Solaris and Windows? I don't know about solaris, I know hal is being used in a number of linux dist

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-19 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi Martin, Il giorno dom, 17/12/2006 alle 19.52 +, Martin Owens ha scritto: [...] > For device detection and management use HAL, update hal dbus code with > all existing detection and status code which will keep these devices > happy, enable the modification of the hal xml as a simple way of >

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-18 Thread m. allan noah
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Martin Owens wrote: > 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 us

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-18 Thread Martin Owens
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 y

Fwd: Re: [sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-18 Thread Gerhard Jaeger
Guess this should go to the list too... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [sane-devel] SANE2 commitment Date: Monday 18 December 2006 08:50 From: "Martin Owens" To: "Gerhard Jaeger" I'm fine about it not being linux only, I just think we're

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-18 Thread Gerhard Jaeger
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

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi everybody, On 2006-12-15 17:57, Alessandro Zummo wrote: >since there seems to be interest in developing sane2, I've decided > to start this thread in order to collect the commitment of each developer. [...] Could we please move the SANE2 (and any sane-standard related) topics to the san

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Jochen Eisinger
Hi, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > I'd appreciate if everyone who is interested can reply > with their own commitments for the 2007.. ehm.. sane2 :) I'm quite surprised to hear there is a sane2 standard - at least one that we can easily start to implement. I don't think it's a good idea to start ha

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On 2006-12-17 12:49, Gerhard Jaeger wrote: > One thing: I'd like to see Hennings opinion here! And we should > agree on some version of the SANE2 standard... Unfortunately I'm very busy and can't do any work related to SANE2 in the near future. I'd really appreciate a new effort in this direc

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On 2006-12-17 16:43, Gerhard Jaeger wrote: > in general I'd say: yes you are right. But on the other hand I don't see > any real progress since years regarding SANE2 - so the question is: > Stay/stuck on SANE1 w/o any chance to enhance support for recent devices OR > start with a standard that

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Martin Owens
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. The problem is that the way scanning is organised is crack-pot and out dated. we are duplicat

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Bertrik Sikken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alessandro Zummo wrote: > > Hello developers, > >since there seems to be interest in developing sane2, I've decided > to start this thread in order to collect the commitment of each developer. > > I'm willing to port the epson driver to sane2

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Martin Owens
My point of view is that it is better to identify the problems you wish to solve my creating a new version of sane that the current version of sane can not be developed into. The first problem I've noted with sane is that it is a little bit all mixed up, detection mixed with scaning, paraport mixe

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Gerard Klaver
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 19:37 +0100, Frank Zago wrote: > Alessandro Zummo wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:02:19 +0100 > > Jochen Eisinger wrote: > > > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Alessandro Zummo wrote: > >> > >>> I'd appreciate if everyone who is interested can reply > >>> with their own commi

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:25:01 +0100 Frank Zago wrote: > > so you're saying to declare current sane as stable, > > fork it and add features to the new tree, making > > it "morphing" into something that will be the next sane? > > > Yes. I think sane1 can evolve into sane2 step by step so as to

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Frank Zago
Alessandro Zummo wrote: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:33:51 +0100 > Frank Zago wrote: > > >>> some people has committed the time necessary to >>> port to sane2 the first bunch of drivers. >>> >>> we are currently missing coders for >>> - all of sanei/* (i'll take sanei_tcp) >>> - the build syst

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:33:51 +0100 Frank Zago wrote: > > some people has committed the time necessary to > > port to sane2 the first bunch of drivers. > > > > we are currently missing coders for > > - all of sanei/* (i'll take sanei_tcp) > > - the build system (configure, makefile et al) >

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Frank Zago
Alessandro Zummo wrote: > Hello developers, > >since there seems to be interest in developing sane2, I've decided > to start this thread in order to collect the commitment of each developer. > > I'm willing to port the epson driver to sane2, help porting the > coolscan driver and handle the

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Frank Zago
Alessandro Zummo wrote: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:02:19 +0100 > Jochen Eisinger wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> Alessandro Zummo wrote: >> >>> I'd appreciate if everyone who is interested can reply >>> with their own commitments for the 2007.. ehm.. sane2 :) >>> >> I'm quite surprised to h

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:02:19 +0100 Jochen Eisinger wrote: > Hi, > > Alessandro Zummo wrote: > > I'd appreciate if everyone who is interested can reply > > with their own commitments for the 2007.. ehm.. sane2 :) > > I'm quite surprised to hear there is a sane2 standard - at least one > that w

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Gerhard Jaeger
On Sunday 17 December 2006 15:02, Jochen Eisinger wrote: > Hi, > > Alessandro Zummo wrote: > > I'd appreciate if everyone who is interested can reply > > with their own commitments for the 2007.. ehm.. sane2 :) > > I'm quite surprised to hear there is a sane2 standard - at least one > that we can

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:49:04 +0100 (MET) Gerhard Jaeger wrote: > > I'd appreciate if everyone who is interested can reply > > with their own commitments for the 2007.. ehm.. sane2 :) > > I'll do the plustek stuff (maybe also plustek_pp and u12) > If needed I'll also check the sanei_thread stuf

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-17 Thread Gerhard Jaeger
On Friday 15 December 2006 17:57, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > Hello developers, > >since there seems to be interest in developing sane2, I've decided > to start this thread in order to collect the commitment of each developer. > > I'm willing to port the epson driver to sane2, help porting the

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-15 Thread Gerard Klaver
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 17:57 +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > > Hello developers, > >since there seems to be interest in developing sane2, I've decided > to start this thread in order to collect the commitment of each developer. > > I'm willing to port the epson driver to sane2, help porti

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-15 Thread m. allan noah
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > Hello developers, > > since there seems to be interest in developing sane2, I've decided > to start this thread in order to collect the commitment of each developer. > > I'm willing to port the epson driver to sane2, help porting the > coolscan driv

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-15 Thread Jon Chambers
I can do dell1600n_net. Anyone volunteering some kind of SANE2 frontend to test with?! cheers, Jon == Jon Chambers = http://www.jon.demon.co.uk, 020 8575 7097, 07931 961669 = On Fri, 15 Dec 2006,

[sane-devel] SANE2 commitment

2006-12-15 Thread Alessandro Zummo
Hello developers, since there seems to be interest in developing sane2, I've decided to start this thread in order to collect the commitment of each developer. I'm willing to port the epson driver to sane2, help porting the coolscan driver and handle the command line frontend. I think