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
> so-called 'linux desktop'.
> The diversity wouldn't be a bad thing. We can think the situation would
> be
> like for video drivers were ATI/NVidia provides closed sources drivers, and
> the free software community open ones. People have then the choice, which
> is good.
> Personnaly, this wouldn't make me stop working on SANE. I do it for fun,
> and this won't go away. I'm sure there will be still scanners 'windows
> only' in the future to keep the 'game' interesting.
A Linux TWAIN will not help at all. TWAIN is just an API - as is SANE. The
device driver must still be written for each operating system. So it does not
matter if a company does not write a Linux SANE driver or Linux TWAIN driver.
There will still be no dirver - and we have to do out ourselfs anyway.
And Linux and SANE are both about open source. Even if one or another Linux
closed source driver would be written by some vendor, it helps nothing when
we can not debug it when it crashes every now and then.
Also my point was we have SANE on Unix system - a TWAIN is likely just to
cause incompatibilities where we have a wide set of applications already
using SANE.
Sincerely yours,
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From an...@pfeiffer.edu Tue Oct 11 16:08:02 2005
From: an...@pfeiffer.edu (m. allan noah)
Date: Tue Oct 11 16:08:26 2005
Subject: [sane-devel] 2 patches for sane-backends
In-Reply-To: <20051006192752.gk8...@meier-geinitz.de>
References: <43453c20.30...@lphp.org> <20051006192752.gk8...@meier-geinitz.de>
Message-ID: <pine.lnx.4.61.0510111206310.12...@limos.pfeiffer.edu>
sorry i have not responded sooner to this thread. i think that someone
else covered that the call in question was BSD specific. is there a sane
policy toward IFDEFs around this kind of thing?
allan
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:00:48PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
>> I'm the maintainer off the sane-backends package for OpenBSD.
>> After working with some OpenBSD developers, I'm sending you a couple of
>> patches so you might consider them for inclusion in the official release.
>
> Thanks! I have applied the scanimage patch to CVS. This code was
> really in SANE? Insane :-)
>
> For the fujitsu patch, I'll keep that for the fujitsu maintainer
> because I don't dare to touch that imprinter code that I don't
> understand :-)
>
> Bye,
> Henning
>
>
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