Hi, On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 7:12 AM James Ring <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Would there be any objection if I did some work on tidying up the > scanimage frontend implementation? Currently, there are some deeply > nested parts of the scanning code interspersed with ifdefs that make > it pretty hard to follow. > > More controversial question, what about writing some parts of it in > C++? Applied judiciously, it could make the code easier to maintain. > My plan would be to use a small subset of C++ (no exceptions, for > example). > > Thanks, > James > > Submissions are always welcome. If it could be made simpler and easier to read and maintain, then I think that would be a worthwhile improvement. We do support C++ in SANE now (notably in the genesys backend). Would be interesting to see what you have in mind. Cheers, Ralph
