[sane-devel] TWAIN 2.0 targetting Linux

[René Rebe]

Hi,

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 20:39, Brian J Densmore wrote:

> I tend to agree with the previous poster, this will be a good thing.
> Not all proprietary drivers are crappy.  Secondly, it's a step in the right
> direction. Expanded support for Linux isn't a bad thing. The drivers are,
> as you have noted, likely to be tied to a particular kernel/lib version
> of Linux.
> The drivers are also likely to be written specifically to a limited
> number of
> distros. While this is not likely to be helpful to many, it may be a
> starting point
> from which FOSS TWAIN applications can be written. As far as point 4
> goes, there is
> nothing preventing anyone from having an alternate boot image for the
> older supported
> Linux version. At least then you'd be able to reboot to do your
> scanning. Were Canon to
> make a proprietary Linux driver for my 8400F (be still my heart), I'd
> download it
> in a flash.

Requiring booting the latest supported Linux kernel whatever is in nothing 
better than booting into Windows to use the scanner. Not something one would 
like to see in production environments.

> I welcome the day I can, buy a scanner and plug it in and have it work.
> I don't care
> if it is proprietary. As long as it works and doesn't trash my system.

Above you recognized yourself that after a year this "plug in and just works" 
is likely to require booting an old Linux flavour due to abondone scanenr 
drivers. The OSS community is doing a much better work maintaining drivers 
once written over a way longer lifespan.

> 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. 
Why should anyone write a Linux application for an API that is not yet there, 
without any driver in sight?

Yours,

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