On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:40:45 +0100 Gerhard Jaeger <gerh...@gjaeger.de> wrote:
> > maybe add a wiki and a new friendlier bug tracking > > system (trac has both). > > any volunteers? if someone has a machine, installing trac is easy, and I can eventually do it. I can use a machine at my company, but would prefer to keep it on an "open" sever. > > my suggestions, thus, are: > > > > - wiki > > Hmmm, it's like everything around here in the net: > * a lot of the information is hopelessly outdated > * if up to date, nobody uses it - they ask on the mailing list well.. it depends on the community.. I've seen bad and good wikis. But we don't know what will happen unless we try :) > > - trac > > - comments > > * Good thing, we started usage of doxygen... /me hates it :) > > - dropping support for anything that is not C99 > > - code reorganization (no more 6K lines in a single file!) > > - standard debug levels for drivers (no more SANE_DEBUG_DRIVERNAME) > > - conformance > > The same problem as porting the stuff to SANE 2 - you'll need the > authors... not for everything... I have some time to reorganize epson2 and maybe coolscan 2... dropping support for C99 is also easy :) and.. if you break a driver you will surely get complaints :-D > All of your point sound reasonable and doable for me - of course, but as I > said: We ran into these discussion often enough and the result was: > No new features, they are for SANE2. I'd agree on the principle if it is implementable :) > But I think you are right, we are moving into a dead-end. We have > devices that are able to do much more than we are able to support > with the SANE 1 standard AND we have a not yet finished (if finished > ever) SANE 2 standard. Event if finished, it could take years to code. And given that we are in 2007 I think we can wait no more. > I'd like to hear/read some more opinions on that. > Any? btw.. I've appreciated your quick response to my email! -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy http://www.towertech.it
