[sane-devel] SANE2, what do we want ?

[Julien BLACHE]

Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:

> ago and no one answered). This will help us that it is much easier for 
> scanner manufacturers to ship drivers with their scanners. They can 

This is all but a good thing. Currently, binary backends provided by
the manufacturers are nothing more than a total annoyance.

They're crappy, non-debuggable, under-documented, badly written, badly
tested, and available for Linux/i386 only.

Encouraging binary backends undermines the efforts done by backends
developers over the past years to obtain specification/documentation
from the manufacturers.

Think twice, please. You're actually actively harming both SANE and
the users by doing so.

JB.

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