[sane-devel] LSB DDK: Support for scanner drivers/SANE into LSB 3.2?

[Till Kamppeter]

Any news on SANE and LSB?

    Till

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Till Kamppeter wrote:
>>> Does the lsb project expect some testing code to be written?
>>> What tests would be needed, or expected, if any?
>>
>> What we need is two interfaces of SANE, once the frontend/library 
>> interface, so that one can have scanning functionality in LSB-packaged 
>> applications, and second, the library/backend interface to allow 
>> distribution-independent LSB-based scanner driver packages.
>>
> 
> Am I right that these two interfaces are the same and that what I call 
> "library", being the file /usr/lib/libsane.so.1 is a copy (why not a 
> symlink?) of the dll backend (/usr/lib/sane/libsane-dll.so.1)? Then we 
> would have only one interface to test, but we need to test both sides of 
> it. We need to test whether a library with that interfaces is there for 
> being linked by (LSB-built) frontends and we need to test whether there 
> is a dll backend with the appropriate backend interface which will find 
> an added (LSB-built) driver.
> 
>    Till
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