On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 15:42 -0400, m. allan noah wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Louis Lagendijk > <louis at lagendijk.xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 15:20 -0400, m. allan noah wrote: > >> is the existing sanei_udp code of any use to your driver? > >> > > I started off re-using the code I wrote for the CUPS bjnp backend. I am > > considering re-writing the code to re-use sanei_udp and sanei_tcp code, > > but a lot of the code is about message formatting and parsing. Re-use > > will help in porting to other platforms (I am on x86_64 Linux). > > > > It remains to be seen that any other backends will ever use it, so i > would be inclined to keep as much of it with the backend as possible. > using the existing sanei_usb and sanei_tcp would be good if you can, > but not a requirement. > > N. Martin should weigh in at this point. It was Nicolas that recommended I ask the question on the list as he was not sure what the preferred route would be. It was actually him that brought up the argument of the IANA allocation :-). I would tend to agree with your argument that it is not very likely that any other backend will ever use the protocol implementation. > > allan > > ps- how about joining the list so we dont have to keep approving your mails :) I AM subscribed to the list and get all mails. I just tried to re-subscribe and received a Mailman privacy alert. It looks as if I am subscribed in read-only mode :-(
Louis
