[sane-devel] TWAIN 2.0 targetting Linux

2005-10-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
Technomage technomage-ha...@cox.net wrote: 3. C++ means the drivers *WILL* be broken at some point by an ABI change (because, yes, that's going to happen AGAIN). I have 2 scanners here. one a mustek 600 (actually a compact 4800 flatbed by primax) and the other an epson. both use scsi and

[sane-devel] TWAIN 2.0 targetting Linux

2005-10-13 Thread david
And you're completely WRONG. What drivers are you going to get with your scanner for Linux ? Binary-only i386 crappy proprietary drivers written in C++ ? 1. this won't help non-i386 users 2. there are no TWAIN applications for Linux (yet) 3. C++ means the drivers *WILL* be broken at

[sane-devel] TWAIN 2.0 targetting Linux

2005-10-13 Thread Mattias Ellert
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:51 +0200, Philipp Schmid wrote: Brian J Densmore schrieb: Hello, So I think the only reasonable thing we could do is to devel one general SANE backend that is able to work with all TWAIN-drivers. But I'm not a man of TWAIN and I can't say if this is

[sane-devel] TWAIN 2.0 targetting Linux

2005-10-13 Thread Brian J Densmore
Johannes Meixner wrote: Hello, On Oct 12 11:12 Ren? Rebe wrote (shortened): Maybe it's time someone works on making TWAIN applications for Linux? Why? SANE is the OSS cross platform API for Unix, Unix-a-like or even OS/2. Of course, but... Thanks all for educating me on

[sane-devel] TWAIN 2.0 targetting Linux

2005-10-13 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Oct 12 11:37 david wrote (shortened): I think it is not unlikely that in 10 years most scanners will be sold with a Linux driver in the box. I agree. So the question becomes what is the best way to help manufactures supply a good driver. Make them aware of

[sane-devel] TWAIN 2.0 targetting Linux

2005-10-12 Thread René Rebe
Desc: not available Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20051012/e2eed0f0/attachment.pgp From jsm...@suse.de Wed Oct 12 09:54:02 2005 From: jsm...@suse.de (Johannes Meixner) Date: Wed Oct 12 09:54:09 2005 Subject: [sane-devel] TWAIN 2.0 targetting Linux In-Reply

[sane-devel] TWAIN 2.0 targetting Linux

2005-10-11 Thread Stéphane VOLTZ
Le Lundi 10 Octobre 2005 10:23, Ren? Rebe a ?crit?: Hi all, aside my SANE Avision backend I do various other stuff - including a commercial TWAIN driver, recently. I noticed the TWAIN 2.0 work in progress list includes the target Linux and a rewritten Data Souce Manager released under /a/

[sane-devel] TWAIN 2.0 targetting Linux

2005-10-11 Thread René Rebe
Hi, On Tuesday 11 October 2005 06:40, St?phane VOLTZ wrote: I believe this is a great thing. Some time in the future, people will be able to bought scanner with the software to have it run immediatly under linux. It is what most people (including me) want. A good point for the

[sane-devel] TWAIN 2.0 targetting Linux

2005-10-11 Thread Julien BLACHE
St?phane VOLTZ stef...@modulonet.fr wrote: I believe this is a great thing. Some time in the future, people will be able to bought scanner with the software to have it run immediatly under linux. It is what most people (including me) want. A good point for the so-called 'linux

[sane-devel] TWAIN 2.0 targetting Linux

2005-10-11 Thread Brian J Densmore
Julien BLACHE wrote: St?phane VOLTZ stef...@modulonet.fr wrote: I believe this is a great thing. Some time in the future, people will be able to bought scanner with the software to have it run immediatly under linux. It is what most people (including me) want. A good point for the

[sane-devel] TWAIN 2.0 targetting Linux

2005-10-11 Thread Philipp Schmid
Brian J Densmore schrieb: Maybe it's time someone works on making TWAIN applications for Linux? Hello, I think SANE is currently a very powerful API with the big advantage that all frontends (and linux scanner applications) are able to work with all (linux)backends. If we have some