On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 02:03:02PM -0400, Tyson Whitehead wrote: > On March 11, 2013 10:12:37 Paul Menzel wrote: > > Like this seems to be from 2010? Was this backend always developed > > outside of SANE upstream and merged every now and then? > > > > > It works for me. I don't know why the original never made it out of > > > the HP5400 repo. > > > > Do you know if it was ever submitted for review? Does Martin agree with > > getting this into SANE upstream repository? > > I don't actually know any of the history regarding the patch or the HP5400 > repo. I just discoverred it when digging around about XPA and the HP5400 as > I > had some negatives I wanted to scan in. > > I also don't actually know who Martin is or how to get ahold of him. All I > know is that the relevant commit log in the CVS repo said > > *Applied patch from Martin to get XPA work. ( This is still beta code and > should be more tested ) > *Beautified a litle manually > > I'm actually wondering if it was suppose to be Martijn, as he seems to show > up > at various points on the sourceforge mailing list. I'll CC him and Thomas > Sourmarmon to see if they can provide more details.
Yes, that would probably be me. Some 10 years ago I bought such a scanner with a slide extension and reverse-engineered the protocol to make it work. Unfortunatly that scanner broke a long time ago and I no longer have it. I do remember this code working at the time though. I'm don't remember why this is in a seperate repo, seems a little pointless. I think it was created to help with the collaboration when the driver did not work yet, perhaps it should be removed entirely after a final merge upstream. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does > not attach much importance to his own thoughts. -- Arthur Schopenhauer -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 828 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20130312/c46886c2/attachment.pgp>
