On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Martin Owens wrote: > I'm fine about it not being linux only, I just think we're limiting > our options to be all things to all platforms. > > For instance, the back ends them selves do not need to be platform > specific. but i believe sane integration 'how the backends are used' > should be.
agreed- especially because there are lots of users of linux distros that still dont use HAL :) allan > > Because at the end of the day all you really need to do is have a > small amount of plugin code for linux hal, same for windows hal, other > archs will need more thicker backend but that doesn't mean you need to > force it on operating systems that already manage devices without > blathering. > > If it turns out to be non-trivial then perhaps there ort to be a linux > sane, call it less-sane 'linux embeded scanner support - sane' and we > can all have a chuckle and use the same backend driver code. > > I just can't believe that we're stuck in the stone age of scanner > device management because of bsd, I suspect that this is exactly the > same reason gutten print is having device problems too, but at least > they have better device code. > > On 12/18/06, Gerhard Jaeger <gerh...@gjaeger.de> wrote: >> On Sunday 17 December 2006 22:47, Martin Owens wrote: >> > Thanks for the link, >> > >> > See it sounds like you want to make the same mistakes, instead of >> > looking for a better way to organise scanning in linux your looking at >> > how to better organise functionality in sane. >> >> Just for the records: SANE is not intended to be Linux only! >> >> > The problem is that the way scanning is organised is crack-pot and out >> > dated. we are duplicating effort for no good reason other than to be >> > stuck in our rut. >> >> He, he... >> >> > I see so many opportunities to make sane a slim line routing code >> > instead of a bloated detection and scanning library. >> >> Okay, go ahead, make some proposals -but keep in mind, that we will >> not only focus on Linux. >> >> - Gerhard >> >> [SNIPSNAP] >> >> >> -- >> sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >> Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" >> to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org >> > > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
