Hi, Because coolscan2 doesn't work with my Coolscan 5000 ED film scanner I more or less rewrote coolscan2 as ls5000. During the cleanup I removed support for all other scanners, it shouldn't be too hard to add back in.
Things I changed: * use C99 constructs for easier command packing * clean up coding style to conform to something I can work with * remove LS-40/4000/... support * add LS-5000 support (the coolscan2 package claims to support it but it doesn't work) * add grayscale support * clean up options * rip out the sane_read implementation and replace with something sane (excuse the pun) * add lots of comments about what the backend is doing * possibly lots more I don't plan to submit any patches to coolscan2.c because that code is in my eyes horrible to work with. I also don't plan to submit ls5000.c to SANE because apparently SANE still requires that the backend builds with ancient compilers. The project has a tiny website at http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects/ls5000, code is available via git clone http://git.sipsolutions.net/ls5000.git (and that URL also works as a gitweb URL) johannes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 190 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20070511/71b4025c/attachment.pgp From r...@exactcode.de Fri May 11 14:03:14 2007 From: r...@exactcode.de (=?iso-8859-1?q?Ren=E9_Rebe?=) Date: Fri May 11 14:04:18 2007 Subject: [sane-devel] [FYI] new ls5000 backend In-Reply-To: <1178888306.8896.22.ca...@johannes.berg> References: <1178888306.8896.22.ca...@johannes.berg> Message-ID: <200705111603.15150.r...@exactcode.de> Hi Johannes :-) On Friday 11 May 2007 14:58:26 you wrote: > Because coolscan2 doesn't work with my Coolscan 5000 ED film scanner I > more or less rewrote coolscan2 as ls5000. During the cleanup I removed > support for all other scanners, it shouldn't be too hard to add back in. > > Things I changed: > * use C99 constructs for easier command packing ... > I don't plan to submit any patches to coolscan2.c because that code is > in my eyes horrible to work with. I also don't plan to submit ls5000.c > to SANE because apparently SANE still requires that the backend builds > with ancient compilers. Indeed SANE is suppost to build on various other, aging Un*x flavours and this is why so far no backend does use C99 features (at least as far as I know and I also avoided it in my Avision backend as well). Yours, -- Ren? Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name
