[sane-devel] SANE2 proposal

[Oliver Rauch]

Nick Lamb wrote:
> 
> 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.


If you know a better string based type definition than we can take a look at that.
We also can create an own list in the standard, but then I do not see a reason
why we should not use MIME.

Bye
Oliver

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