[sane-devel] Sane API Suggestion

2003-07-22 Thread abel deuring
Major A schrieb: The SANE API is designed to be simple and portable, and any change towards object orientation or functional programming would only bloat it unnecessarily. Sorry, if you want to interface Scheme to SANE, you'll have to adapt to the way things are. Well, changing the current

[sane-devel] detect the correct scanner

2003-07-22 Thread Foffy
i have a genius color page vivid-III but when mandrake detect it as a plustek, that has the same chip. Is this important or not? and how i can get it detected as genius color page vivid-III. ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versiĆ³n GRATIS Super

[sane-devel] detect the correct scanner

2003-07-22 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:54:45PM +0200, Foffy wrote: i have a genius color page vivid-III but when mandrake detect it as a plustek, that has the same chip. Is this important or not? and how i can get it detected as genius color page vivid-III. It would have been important if the

[sane-devel] Does anyone need help writing a backend?

2003-07-22 Thread Stuart Hirons
Ah sorry Henning but i haven't got MS Windows. The main reason I moved to Linux was because I was fed up with dodgy windows installations, crashes, etc and did not want to give Mr Gates any money in order to rectify it. Red hat has been fine ever since I installed it, I just didn't realise that

[sane-devel] detect the correct scanner

2003-07-22 Thread Frank Zago
Hi Foffy_69, Assuming your scanner works, why do you care? Another solution to your problem would be to print a Plustek sticker and put it on top of the Genius logo. :) Frank. Foffy wrote: i have a genius color page vivid-III but when mandrake detect it as a plustek, that has the same chip.

[sane-devel] sane-backends effectively GPL'd in disguise?

2003-07-22 Thread Frank Zago
Hi Olaf, IANAL but I'll try to answer anyway. None of these contain code. Just prototype and APIs. I don't think that the omission of the SANE exception would propagate to the rest of the code. Besides the README states that the backends are under GPL+exception. It is also quite clear that the