[sane-devel] Last call for new backends

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:41:43PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> FWIW, the main problem it has is getting testers. On all the scanners we've
> tested (about 3 AFAIK) it works fine. It's never been tested on anything
> other than linux, or on anything than i386 for that matter. I'm almost
> expecting some endian-problems on other architectures but without an example
> I can't check.

Endianess problems should only occur if you scan 16 bit images and
access them as u_int16 mixed with u_int8. Or with any other data type
> 8 bits sent to the scanner directly.

> My question is though, once it is included how do we update it? Do we
> continue externally and sync periodically or do we get commit access some
> other way? How does it work?

Ask Petter Reinhodtsen for write access to the SANE CVS server:
http://www.student.uit.no/~pere/linux/sane/cvs-server.html

Bye,
  Henning