On 02.09.2008 07:25, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > 2008/9/1 abel deuring <adeuring at gmx.net>: >> The test backend is a invaluably useful tool for testing: You get more >> or less any sort of device options; you can see if your bindings >> properly handle things like enabling/disabling of options, if you get >> the type conversion between Sane and Perl data types properly done etc etc. >> >> You even get perfectly reproducible, noise free, scan data :) > > Excellent. I'll use that. > >> Additional tests with real-world devices are also useful, because the > > Sure, but I can only test it with mine :-)
Of course -- nobody expects that you'll be able to test your code with ten different scanners :) > > Is there a good reason why pkg-config files aren't built with SANE? > The lack of them make dependency checking difficult before build-time. I think nobody yet bothered about that. > > If I work up a patch to add them is it likely to be accepted? I would not mind seeing Perl bindings included. But other Sane folks should give their opinion too. I could imagine that CPAN might be a better place for the bindings, since Perl developers might look for Perl modules there, I'd guess. (disclaimer: I am not a Perl developer, so I can't claim to have any real clue where/how to search for Perl modules...) Abel
