Jarl Friis wrote: > I suggest the following patch to help sys-admins and package > maintainers to use sane with the hpoj backend. > > I just read that code-freeze for 1.0.9 is today, so in lack of time > before code-freeze I have not been able to test the patch, but as the > change is only comments, it shouldn't be able to destroy anything. ... > +#To use hpoj backend you must install hpoj (from hpoj.sf.net) > +#hpoj One problem with adding this is that the hpoj installation process automatically adds an "hpoj" line, so you would end up with a possibly confusing situation of two such lines, one commented out somewhere in the middle and another not commented out at or near the end. If it's done right, a binary package (such as the hpoj packages in Mandrake 9.0) should be able to do a similar thing, so this doesn't help all that much and will cause a similar problem of confusion. In any case, the hpoj documentation explains how to modify this file if necessary, for example, if the installation process doesn't do the right thing.
> If somebody is a autoconf-guru consider the following change to scripts: > To make configure to take an argument '--with-hpoj' that will uncomment > the hpoj backend line. This may help package creators even more. I think this is more trouble than it's worth. I'm trying to not have too many functional linkages from SANE to hpoj, because that makes it harder for me to make changes in hpoj. > Further I suggest the SANE website maintainer to update the > http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html > to reflect the changes (to man-pages) announced by David Paschal in > August, i.e. the existence of hpoj and recomend hpoj backend (opposed > to hp backend) for certain HP multifunction devices, but that might > already be planned with the release of 1.0.9. That will happen automatically with the next SANE release. David
