Major A wrote: >>It seems to me that if nothing happens on the SANE2 front (eg development), >>SANE2 will stay a mirage. A well documented illusion. >>A lot of people have given some input, but if the proposal isn't >>implemented, why care? > > > Good point, Frank. The bad thing is that SANE1 and SANE2 are mostly > incompatible, so it's currently quite difficult to write a SANE2 > frontend because there no suitable backends, and vice versa.
scanimage can be used as the reference frontend. It's only 2000 lines, so it's easy to adapt. > It just occurred to me that we could make a shortcut: create a > metabackend that converts from SANE1 to SANE2, and one for the other > way round. All that would be needed is an appropriate directory > structure in CVS, and we could have SANE1 and SANE2 running > concurrently. A converter from sane1 to sane2 might be good for unmaintained backends. A converter from sane2 to sane1 would be a waste of effort IMHO, and not a good incentive to convert backends. > > I might have some time in a couple of weeks, so maybe I'll have a > closer look at SANE2 to find out how the conversion can be done. > > This is an RFC. > > Andras > Frank.
