[sane-devel] SANE2 (was Re: Scanning negatives with Epson Perferction 1260 Photo)

[Frank Zago]

Major A wrote:
>>It seems to me that if nothing happens on the SANE2 front (eg development), 
>>SANE2 will stay a mirage. A well documented illusion.
>>A lot of people have given some input, but if the proposal isn't 
>>implemented, why care?
> 
> 
> Good point, Frank. The bad thing is that SANE1 and SANE2 are mostly
> incompatible, so it's currently quite difficult to write a SANE2
> frontend because there no suitable backends, and vice versa.

scanimage can be used as the reference frontend. It's only 2000 lines, so it's 
easy to adapt.

> It just occurred to me that we could make a shortcut: create a
> metabackend that converts from SANE1 to SANE2, and one for the other
> way round. All that would be needed is an appropriate directory
> structure in CVS, and we could have SANE1 and SANE2 running
> concurrently.

A converter from sane1 to sane2 might be good for unmaintained backends. A 
converter from sane2 to sane1 would be a waste of effort IMHO, and not a good 
incentive to convert backends.

> 
> I might have some time in a couple of weeks, so maybe I'll have a
> closer look at SANE2 to find out how the conversion can be done.
> 
> This is an RFC.
> 
>   Andras
> 
Frank.