On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:09, Julien BLACHE wrote: > St?phane VOLTZ <[email protected]> wrote: > > I believe this is a great thing. Some time in the future, people will be > > able to bought scanner with the software to have it run immediatly under > > linux. It is what most people (including me) want. A good point for the > > so-called 'linux desktop'. > > And you're completely WRONG. > > What drivers are you going to get with your scanner for Linux ? > Binary-only i386 crappy proprietary drivers written in C++ ?
I never see "binary-only" where I am. > > 1. this won't help non-i386 users true > 2. there are no TWAIN applications for Linux (yet) There won't be, either. thats what SANE if for! > 3. C++ means the drivers *WILL* be broken at some point by an ABI > change (because, yes, that's going to happen AGAIN). I have 2 scanners here. one a mustek 600 (actually a compact 4800 flatbed by primax) and the other an epson. both use scsi and both have worked flawlessly over all revisions of sane. in fact, it was I that sent the Primary developer here news a few years back that put the primax compact 4800 into the mustek 600 code line as 'stable" > 4. as the drivers will basically go unmaintained after a year, and the > source won't be released anyway, you'll be stuck with an unusable > scanner. care to back up that claim? I have one of those "unusable" scanners, only under SANE, it is very usable, thank you! > > Looks like an improvement to me, indeed. Did you read the code Mustek > sent to Henning ? No ? You should. That's what you'll get with your > scanner. > > JB. I haven't and I won't. I trust that Henning knows what he is doing. TMH
