On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > brad sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ . . . ] > > Are there technical reasons why the above patches shouldn't be applied? > > The fact that these features will be fixed/supported in a future iscan > > release is great, but it shouldn't preclude their inclusion in the sane > > package now. > > As in "damage the hardware"? Probably not. > > Your patches for Julien's epkowa backend are against code from > iscan-2.10. Julien has not upgraded to the sources for iscan-2.11 > yet. That very understandable because it will break support for all > models that need an interpreter (except the GT-X770 / Perfection > V500). Once AVASYS releases fixed interpreters, all Julien should > have to do is upgrade to the latest epkowa backend sources. > > Julien is free to decide whether he'll include your patches in his > sane-backends-extras for the time being and rip them out again when > upgrading to iscan-2.11 or later. But I don't quite see a need to > include them in the AVASYS iscan sources.
Ahh, now I understand. Thanks for the info. Obviously, I'd like to seem them applied to the current sane package so I don't have to maintain my own patch-set :-) I'll be happy to work with Julien/whomever to rework the patch when 2.11 gets merged. -- Brad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

