Hello. As most of you know I am against the recent development of the SANE1 standard. We have an almost complete SANE2 standard and a good working SANE1 standard. What is happening in the moment is the destruction of all we have. This will end in a chaos.
I don`t understand why nobody wants to start with SANE2. It will take a weekend of work to create a SANE2 backend from an existing SANE1 backend. Because you don`t want to spend this time you destroy the SANE1 standard by creating a chaos. As you say 95% of the users are happy with SANE1. What you are doing now is to make 95% of the users unhappy. When you will do what you are talking about in the moment then I will have to think if I will spend any further time into the SANE project and into xsane. I know if I would continue the work for xsane in this case then I would have to spend 99% of my programming time to answer questions about incompatibilities and problems with the new "1.1-standard". In my opinion it is not fair to create so much problems for SANE1 because you don`t like to spend some days to create SANE2 backends from the SANE1 backends. Please think about what you are doing. Best regards Oliver Am Dienstag, den 18.12.2007, 15:01 +0100 schrieb Alessandro Zummo: > To: > Gerhard Jaeger > Henning Geinitz > Julien Blache > Oliver Rauch > Petter Reinholdtsen > M. Allan Noah > > Hello SANE Admins, > > I would like, in the interest of the SANE community of users and developers, > to kindly ask the permission to add some much required frame types to the > repository. > > Given that: > > - some types are already in use by in-repository backends > - other types are in use by external backends > - the JPEG frame type has already been added > - any well written frontend will not notice the change > - the new types are not active by default > > I ask you to ease the work of backend authors > and allow this much requested change. > > Thanks in advance for your time and for your answer. >