On Friday 22 June 2007 13:30:13 Till Kamppeter wrote: > Ren? Rebe wrote: > >> Hase the SANE2 development actually started? What are the limitations of > > > > Don't think so. > > > [...] > > I think SANE 1 is pretty fine and in too wide use to abondone. Features > > of new scanners, such as JPEG and infrared frames can easily be added > > without breaking anything, just new types. > > > > I think most SANE 2 jadda jadda is driven by some "let's rewrite everything > > so that it looks prettier" without thinking about the aspects like: > > > > - enforcing all application support to be rewritten > > - probably loosing a lot of old driver noone will port to SANE 2 > > > > and probably: > > > > - not enough volunteers to rewrite everything from scratch > > > > which is possibly why no SANE 2 code despite a lot of SPEC talking > > has seen the wild, yet. > > > [...] > > > > As a company having Open Source scanning solutions in production, > > and helping other companies to do so I appreciate this efford and would > > help - however I can only do so if SANE 2 development does not throw > > all away that we built up the last 10 years. > > I think under these circumstances it is the best to simply go ahead and > do everything to get the current SANE into the LSB. The time is much > better invested for getting SANE into the LSB than for writing a new > SANE. Current SANE in LSB will make many manufacturers start supporting > Linux immediately. SANE2 will make a big confusion and repel the > manufacturers. > > So I recommend for the best for Linux on the desktop and for the SANE > project is to concentrate on getting SANE into the LSB now.
Yes, this is my talking for a long time. Unfortunatly some SANE developers lobby for the SANE2 from scratch. I take a look into what is necessary to get SANE into the LSB over the weekend. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Yours, -- Ren? Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Susanne Klaus, Ren? Rebe Sitz: Berlin, Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 105 123 B USt-IdNr.: DE251602478 http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name
