[sane-devel] The future of the SANE-Standard

[Julien BLACHE]

"m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

>> If converting a backend to SANE2 can be done in a week-end as Oliver
>> suggested, I can't see why we could not convert existing backends,
>> even if unmaintained.
>
> SANE2 has not been touched in years, and the folks that are now around
> to actually implement it, are not the ones that wrote it. You can bet
> we will have to re-examine every change in the current draft before
> anyone writes any code. hence, my desire to do something small that we
> can agree on.

I share that view.

>> Maybe this time we will be able to actually get something done,
>> otherwise I'm afraid SANE might be doomed as it would mean it's just
>> unable to evolve.
>
> it might only be a small step, but this time, we ARE going to move.

Which is good news :)

JB.

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