Technomage wrote:
>> 3. C++ means the drivers *WILL* be broken at some point by an ABI
>>change (because, yes, that's going to happen AGAIN).
>
> I have 2 scanners here. one a mustek 600 (actually a compact 4800 flatbed by
> primax) and the other an epson. both use scsi and both have worked
Hello,
On Oct 12 11:37 david wrote (shortened):
> I think it is not unlikely that in 10 years most scanners
> will be sold with a Linux driver in the box.
I agree.
> So the question becomes what is the best way to help
> manufactures supply a good driver.
Make them aware of
http://www.sane-pr
Johannes Meixner wrote:
>Hello,
>
>On Oct 12 11:12 Ren? Rebe wrote (shortened):
>
>
>>>Maybe it's time
>>>someone works on making TWAIN applications for Linux?
>>>
>>>
>>Why? SANE is the OSS cross platform API for Unix, Unix-a-like
>>or even OS/2.
>>
>>
>
>Of course, but...
>
>
Than
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:51 +0200, Philipp Schmid wrote:
> Brian J Densmore schrieb:
>
> Hello,
>
> So I think the only reasonable thing we could do is to devel one general SANE
> backend that
> is able to work with all TWAIN-drivers. But I'm not a man of TWAIN and I
> can't say if
> this is th
> And you're completely WRONG.
>
> What drivers are you going to get with your scanner for Linux ?
> Binary-only i386 crappy proprietary drivers written in C++ ?
>
> 1. this won't help non-i386 users
> 2. there are no TWAIN applications for Linux (yet)
> 3. C++ means the drivers *WILL* be broken
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On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:09, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> St?phane VOLTZ wrote:
> > I believe this is a great thing. Some time in the future, people will be
> > able to bought scanner with the software to have it run immediatly under
> > linux. It is what most people (including me) want. A good
Hello,
in my view and daily work experiience the initial idea of having something
which makes life easier for the common scanning guy is of undisputable sex
appeal. Since even if you ever stay in the same distro with ever the same
scanner you have steadily to fiddle around from versionnumber to
Brian J Densmore schrieb:
>
>Maybe it's time
>
>
>someone works on making TWAIN applications for Linux?
>
Hello,
I think SANE is currently a very powerful API with the big advantage that all
frontends (and linux scanner applications) are able to work with all
(linux)backends.
If we have som
Julien BLACHE wrote:
>St?phane VOLTZ wrote:
>
>
>
>> I believe this is a great thing. Some time in the future, people will
>> be able
>>to bought scanner with the software to have it run immediatly under linux. It
>>is what most people (including me) want. A good point for the so-called
St?phane VOLTZ wrote:
> I believe this is a great thing. Some time in the future, people will
> be able
> to bought scanner with the software to have it run immediatly under linux. It
> is what most people (including me) want. A good point for the so-called
> 'linux desktop'.
And you'r
Hi,
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 06:40, St?phane VOLTZ wrote:
> I believe this is a great thing. Some time in the future, people will be
> able to bought scanner with the software to have it run immediatly under
> linux. It is what most people (including me) want. A good point for the
> so-ca
Le Lundi 10 Octobre 2005 10:23, Ren? Rebe a ?crit?:
> Hi all,
>
> aside my SANE Avision backend I do various other stuff - including a
> commercial TWAIN driver, recently.
>
> I noticed the TWAIN 2.0 "work in progress" list includes the target "Linux"
> and a "rewritten Data Souce Manager released
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