[sane-devel] Can I use c++ in sane-backend programing?

[René Rebe]

Hi,

On Monday 10 October 2005 17:17, kenwhale wrote:

> Hi, all.
>      I read backend-writing.txt in www.sane-project.org. It says:
> * Use only ANSI C for your backend. C99 is not supported by the
> compilers of some older platforms so please avoid using its features.
>      Does that mean I must write my backend in c and can't use c++ ?

In theory you can write in any language with a C binding. However on many of 
the esoteric platforms we support this does not work.

So you could write it in C++ and make a configure check for your language (C++ 
here) and conditionally compile it when it is available. However you restrict 
your backend to platforms where a recent enough (depending what C++ features 
you use) is availbale.

Distributing seperateded from sane-backends is another options.

Yours,

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