This is a useful idea, it comes up on this list every 6 months or so. But no one has done the legwork to make it happen. I do note when a model is discontinued from fujitsu, but that is the only backend of mine where i know enough about the equipment to do so!
allan On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Y P <yellow.penguin at edpnet.be> wrote: > Hi, > > although I find the SANE project something very very useful and nice, I miss > something: > the list of scanners that are supported doesn't mention the manufacturing > year, > so the result is that sometimes you think "ow yeah this is a supported > scanner" while in fact you have to think "Ow ch... this scanner doesn't > longer exist and/or isn't longer in the shops": > isn't there a way to provide information about the fabrication year so that > people no longer searches for 10 year old products while they do believe > it's something new ? > > Just my fifty cents! > > Labrador > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"