On Freitag, 25. Mai 2007, m. allan noah wrote: [SNIPSNAP] > yes, this will require that a front-end would have to be updated to > understand this type of data. I can extend scanimage and scanadf > (though i probably wont support all the possible conversions). it will > also require (in the case of compression) that the front-end be able > to deal with variable length data. > > comments, requests, flames? :) > Well extending SANE1 will certainly start the new discussion about finishing SANE2 standard before starting - ACK ;) But as we did not move forward and scanner support for Linux is more or less stopped in its development, I vote for extending SANE1.
As long as it won't hurt the API and the flow-control, introducing more frametypes should be no problem... - Gerhard
