On 4/3/08, Ralph D. Ungermann <linux at mloge-ungermann.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Ralph D. Ungermann wrote: > >> > >> I'm about to adapt the teco3 backend to the VM6552. > >> > >> My question: Is there still any public interest in backends for > >> such old scanners? > > > > m. allan noah wrote: > > though there may not be much interest, we will accept patches if you > > get it working and it compiles cleanly. we might even make you > > maintainer of the code if you are not careful :) > > > > My scanner now runs fine! But unfortunately, it turned out to be not a > patch, but a major rewrite (with 30% less lines). I presume, that my > backend also solves major issues for the other supported scanners, > chiefly with color scans and responsiveness (to cancel). But I have no > way to test it for other teco models, and I don't want to fool millions > of happy teco3 users. > > If there is anybody else out there using backend teco1, teco2, or teco3, > I'm willing to unify and maintain that driver. But now I sit idle, until > somebody googles and finds this email...
why dont you go ahead and combine those drivers into a new teco backend, if it is easy enough. we can ship two backends that support the same scanners, and we can even disable teco1-3 in the dll.conf file. having currently active maintainers is worth the trouble. if you are looking for something else to do, there are plenty of other unsupported machines around :) allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
