[sane-devel] SANE2 proposal

Nick Lamb njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun, 14 Apr 2002 18:23:41 +0100


On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 03:01:42PM +0200, Oliver Rauch wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> The first discussions about a SANE2 standard started about 2 years ago.

And I wrote a draft, but you never sent any feedback :(

> Please take a look at:
> 
> 	http://www.xsane.org/sane2/index.html

Most of the extensions and fixes are excellent.

However it still doesn't make any sense to use MIME descriptors in the
frame type. Please don't do this, the TIFF JPEG annex should be ample
evidence that people have tried making this type of mistake and they
regretted it, enough in that case to abolish a published standard.

Nick.