[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-07-27 Thread René Rebe
On Saturday 30 June 2007 09:14:16 Ren? Rebe wrote: Hi, On Friday 29 June 2007 23:12:40 m. allan noah wrote: well, after letting this sit for a few weeks to see if i could think of a better way, i stumbled across the fact that the sane backend for bell and howell scanners already supports

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-07-27 Thread René Rebe
On Friday 27 July 2007 12:35:03 m. allan noah wrote: On 7/27/07, Ren? Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: On Saturday 30 June 2007 09:14:16 Ren? Rebe wrote: Hi, On Friday 29 June 2007 23:12:40 m. allan noah wrote: well, after letting this sit for a few weeks to see if i could think

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-06-30 Thread René Rebe
Hi, On Friday 29 June 2007 23:12:40 m. allan noah wrote: well, after letting this sit for a few weeks to see if i could think of a better way, i stumbled across the fact that the sane backend for bell and howell scanners already supports 3 additional frame types. they are used to send

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-06-29 Thread m. allan noah
well, after letting this sit for a few weeks to see if i could think of a better way, i stumbled across the fact that the sane backend for bell and howell scanners already supports 3 additional frame types. they are used to send variants of G4 fax, and the text that comes from a hardware

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-06-03 Thread René Rebe
On Sunday 03 June 2007 02:38:30 you wrote: On 6/2/07, Ren? Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi, On 02.06.2007, at 22:05, m. allan noah wrote: On 6/2/07, Ren? Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi, On 02.06.2007, at 20:59, ?tienne Bersac wrote: So what is the conclusion of

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-06-02 Thread René Rebe
Hi, On 02.06.2007, at 20:59, ?tienne Bersac wrote: So what is the conclusion of the thread ? don't now. Response stopped. For me it means I'll have a private patch, probably inside the T2 SDE: http://www.t2-project.org/ I can not and will not spend 4 years of recoding SANE just for 2 new

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-06-02 Thread m. allan noah
On 6/2/07, Ren? Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi, On 02.06.2007, at 20:59, ?tienne Bersac wrote: So what is the conclusion of the thread ? don't now. Response stopped. For me it means I'll have a private patch, probably inside the T2 SDE: http://www.t2-project.org/ I can not

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-06-02 Thread René Rebe
Hi, On 02.06.2007, at 22:05, m. allan noah wrote: On 6/2/07, Ren? Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi, On 02.06.2007, at 20:59, ?tienne Bersac wrote: So what is the conclusion of the thread ? don't now. Response stopped. For me it means I'll have a private patch, probably inside the

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-06-02 Thread m. allan noah
On 6/2/07, Ren? Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi, On 02.06.2007, at 22:05, m. allan noah wrote: On 6/2/07, Ren? Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi, On 02.06.2007, at 20:59, ?tienne Bersac wrote: So what is the conclusion of the thread ? don't now. Response stopped. For

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-29 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Montag, den 28.05.2007, 18:35 +0200 schrieb Ren? Rebe: Sane already has so many options that are unsupported by most frontends, yet another frametype will not matter much at all. Can you give one good example? If I feel like setting a bitdepth of 32 or 64 bits all frontends I saw so

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-29 Thread René Rebe
On Monday 28 May 2007 21:56:11 you wrote: Hi all, What about SANE 1.2 ? Adding some frametype and well-known options would improve and clean SANE without the burden of a brand new from scratch release. This without the fear of the major release migration. Exactly. I'm all for it as we need

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-29 Thread m. allan noah
On 5/29/07, Ren? Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: On Monday 28 May 2007 21:56:11 you wrote: Hi all, What about SANE 1.2 ? Adding some frametype and well-known options would improve and clean SANE without the burden of a brand new from scratch release. This without the fear of the major

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-29 Thread René Rebe
On Monday 28 May 2007 23:14:22 you wrote: Am Montag, den 28.05.2007, 18:35 +0200 schrieb Ren? Rebe: Sane already has so many options that are unsupported by most frontends, yet another frametype will not matter much at all. Can you give one good example? All the option names differ

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-29 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Dienstag, den 29.05.2007, 17:34 +0200 schrieb Ren? Rebe: On Monday 28 May 2007 23:14:22 you wrote: Am Montag, den 28.05.2007, 18:35 +0200 schrieb Ren? Rebe: Sane already has so many options that are unsupported by most frontends, yet another frametype will not matter much at

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-29 Thread René Rebe
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 18:17:24 you wrote: Am Dienstag, den 29.05.2007, 17:34 +0200 schrieb Ren? Rebe: On Monday 28 May 2007 23:14:22 you wrote: Am Montag, den 28.05.2007, 18:35 +0200 schrieb Ren? Rebe: Sane already has so many options that are unsupported by most frontends,

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-28 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Sonntag, den 27.05.2007, 14:08 -0400 schrieb m. allan noah: Well extending SANE1 will certainly start the new discussion about finishing SANE2 standard before starting - ACK ;) But as we did not move forward and scanner support for Linux is more or less stopped in its

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-28 Thread m. allan noah
On 5/28/07, Oliver Rauch Oliver.Rauch at rauch-domain.de wrote: Am Sonntag, den 27.05.2007, 14:08 -0400 schrieb m. allan noah: Well extending SANE1 will certainly start the new discussion about finishing SANE2 standard before starting - ACK ;) But as we did not move forward and

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-28 Thread René Rebe
Hi, On Monday 28 May 2007 13:04:28 Oliver Rauch wrote: Am Sonntag, den 27.05.2007, 14:08 -0400 schrieb m. allan noah: Well extending SANE1 will certainly start the new discussion about finishing SANE2 standard before starting - ACK ;) But as we did not move forward and scanner

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-28 Thread René Rebe
Hi, On Monday 28 May 2007 14:08:37 m. allan noah wrote: On 5/28/07, Oliver Rauch Oliver.Rauch at rauch-domain.de wrote: Am Sonntag, den 27.05.2007, 14:08 -0400 schrieb m. allan noah: Well extending SANE1 will certainly start the new discussion about finishing SANE2 standard

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-28 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hi, As a frontend developer, i would really enjoy that SANE 2 get developped, especially for its larger amount of well-known options. However, i'm not agree with the curent handling of scanner button (as we discussed earlier). Regards, ?tienne -- verso l'Alto !

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-28 Thread m. allan noah
On 5/28/07, Ren? Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi, On Monday 28 May 2007 14:08:37 m. allan noah wrote: On 5/28/07, Oliver Rauch Oliver.Rauch at rauch-domain.de wrote: Am Sonntag, den 27.05.2007, 14:08 -0400 schrieb m. allan noah: Well extending SANE1 will certainly start

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-27 Thread Gerhard Jaeger
On Freitag, 25. Mai 2007, m. allan noah wrote: [SNIPSNAP] yes, this will require that a front-end would have to be updated to understand this type of data. I can extend scanimage and scanadf (though i probably wont support all the possible conversions). it will also require (in the case of

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-27 Thread René Rebe
Hi Allan, hi all, On Sunday 27 May 2007 13:38:31 Gerhard Jaeger wrote: On Freitag, 25. Mai 2007, m. allan noah wrote: [SNIPSNAP] yes, this will require that a front-end would have to be updated to understand this type of data. I can extend scanimage and scanadf (though i probably wont

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-27 Thread m. allan noah
On 5/27/07, Ren? Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi Allan, hi all, On Sunday 27 May 2007 13:38:31 Gerhard Jaeger wrote: On Freitag, 25. Mai 2007, m. allan noah wrote: [SNIPSNAP] yes, this will require that a front-end would have to be updated to understand this type of data. I can

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-26 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hi, I agree with the proposal. Even if i wonder who do SANE 2, and if this change does not actually open the SANE 2 development ? do you intend to create at least a SANE 2 branch in CVS or save SANE 1 in a CVS branch ? (i don't know if CVS handle branch like SVN) Would be nice also to harmonize

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-26 Thread Julien BLACHE
m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: Hi, at this moment, i think that i would NOT bump the soversion, because i do not wish to imply that this is sane2. i see two possibilities for frontend error: 1. SANE_FRAME_* code does not handle unknown frametype 2. the sane_read() loop dies

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-25 Thread m. allan noah
Quite a few recent scanners have the ability to output jpeg data, including most fujitsus. I have been contracted to extend sane to support this capability. I can keep the modifications private, or i can try to get them included in sane proper (which i prefer). Therefore, I have reviewed the

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-25 Thread Gerard Klaver
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 13:31 -0400, m. allan noah wrote: Quite a few recent scanners have the ability to output jpeg data, including most fujitsus. I have been contracted to extend sane to support this capability. I can keep the modifications private, or i can try to get them included in sane

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-25 Thread Julien BLACHE
m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: yes, this will require that a front-end would have to be updated to understand this type of data. I can extend scanimage and scanadf Do you plan to change either the current API or ABI ? (wrt soversion bump to libsane.so.2) JB. -- Julien BLACHE

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-25 Thread m. allan noah
On 5/25/07, Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org wrote: m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: yes, this will require that a front-end would have to be updated to understand this type of data. I can extend scanimage and scanadf Do you plan to change either the current API or ABI ? (wrt