[sane-devel] Sane API Suggestion

2003-07-21 Thread abel deuring
Major A schrieb: > The SANE API is designed to be simple and portable, and any change > towards object orientation or functional programming would only bloat > it unnecessarily. Sorry, if you want to interface Scheme to SANE, > you'll have to adapt to the way things are. Well, changing the curren

[sane-devel] Sane API Suggestion

2003-07-21 Thread Major A
> I don't think that network transparency introduces a problem for "user > data" pointer sizes. Since Sane itself does not deal with this pointer, > the net backend does not need to send and receive the correct value of > this pointer to/from the Sane server. Instead, the net backend can use >

[sane-devel] Does anyone need help writing a backend?

2003-07-21 Thread Stuart Hirons
Henning, I have a UMAX 4500 sitting on my desk lying unused since I moved to Red Hat 4 months ago, can I be of any help here in obtaining any logs or anything ? Regards, Stu Hirons On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 13:54, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 02:38:36PM +0200, Ja

[sane-devel] Re: Sane API Suggestion

2003-07-21 Thread Peter Santoro
Thank you all for your input. I do understand (and expected) the responses I got. I probably should have included some sample source code to support and clarify my suggestion. For those who are interested, a summary of some cross language issues can be found at http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/aut