[sane-devel] Infrared channel

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Feb 22 17:23 Gerhard Jaeger wrote (shortened):
> On Tuesday 22 February 2005 16:21, Johannes Meixner wrote:
> > Perhaps it is possible to "misuse" the PPD file syntax for scanner
> > setup as well.
> 
> You are right, but I don't like the idea to "misuse" something,
> especially it has a spec consiting of 186 pages ;)

Don't get confused by the length of the PPD spec.
The spec of the plain PPD syntax is small.
Most in Adobe's PPD spec is description about very printer
specific stuff (which keywords should be used and so on ...).


> But we should really create some unique database, somehow
> automagically, where every backend puts it's information
> and options to in a well defined way.

I didn't dare to ask for this.

Obviously it is best not to maintain any kind of text files
but to run the backend in a special mode and the backend spits out
what it knows in a well defined format.

This way a config tool would call all actually installed backends
and build the list of models upon the actual backend information
and not upon possibly wrong or outdated text files.


Kind Regards,
Johannes Meixner
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