On Friday 22 June 2007 12:01:11 Till Kamppeter wrote: > Ren? Rebe wrote: > >> SANE developers, WDYT about SANE getting into the LSB? Are you willing > >> to provide API documentation and testing procedures? > > > > Some of us (read including me) are interested in this standardization > > efford, while others plan to reinvent the SANE wheel with a 100% > > incompatible SANE2 for about 5 years or so, now. > > > > Hase the SANE2 development actually started? What are the limitations of
Don't think so. > the current SANE framework? Is there no possibility to overcome them > without creating completely new driver and application APIs/ABIs? I think SANE 1 is pretty fine and in too wide use to abondone. Features of new scanners, such as JPEG and infrared frames can easily be added without breaking anything, just new types. I think most SANE 2 jadda jadda is driven by some "let's rewrite everything so that it looks prettier" without thinking about the aspects like: - enforcing all application support to be rewritten - probably loosing a lot of old driver noone will port to SANE 2 and probably: - not enough volunteers to rewrite everything from scratch which is possibly why no SANE 2 code despite a lot of SPEC talking has seen the wild, yet. > > Having the SANE API in the LSB is certainly a big step forward in future > > end-user experience with Desktop Linux, it certainly also makes it harder > > to rectify an incomtiable rewrite of SANE just for the sake of it. > > I would appreciate the cooperation from the SANE developers to get SANE > into LSB 3.2, as only adding this adds the same possibilities for > scanners which we have now with the LSB DDK for printers. See > > http://www.openprinting.org/ > http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/WritingAndPackagingPrinterDrivers > http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/LFSummitMountainView2007 > http://www.linux-foundation.org/images/e/e4/Distro-Independent-Packages.pdf > > > Till As a company having Open Source scanning solutions in production, and helping other companies to do so I appreciate this efford and would help - however I can only do so if SANE 2 development does not throw all away that we built up the last 10 years. Yours, -- Ren? Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name