[sane-devel] TWAIN 2.0 targetting Linux

[Technomage]

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:09, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> Stéphane VOLTZ <stefdev at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > 	I believe this is a great thing. Some time in the future, people will be
> > able to bought scanner with the software to have it run immediatly under
> > linux. It is what most people (including me) want. A good point for the
> > so-called 'linux desktop'.
>
> And you're completely WRONG.
>
> What drivers are you going to get with your scanner for Linux ?
> Binary-only i386 crappy proprietary drivers written in C++ ?

I never see "binary-only" where I am.

>
> 1. this won't help non-i386 users

true

> 2. there are no TWAIN applications for Linux (yet)

There won't be, either. thats what SANE if for!

> 3. C++ means the drivers *WILL* be broken at some point by an ABI
>    change (because, yes, that's going to happen AGAIN).

I have 2 scanners here. one a mustek 600 (actually a compact 4800 flatbed by 
primax) and the other an epson. both use scsi and both have worked flawlessly 
over all revisions of sane. in fact, it was I that sent the Primary developer 
here news a few years back that put the primax compact 4800 into the mustek 
600 code line as 'stable"

> 4. as the drivers will basically go unmaintained after a year, and the
>    source won't be released anyway, you'll be stuck with an unusable
>    scanner.

care to back up that claim? I have one of those "unusable" scanners, only 
under SANE, it is very usable, thank you!

>
> Looks like an improvement to me, indeed. Did you read the code Mustek
> sent to Henning ? No ? You should. That's what you'll get with your
> scanner.
>
> JB.

I haven't and I won't. I trust that Henning knows what he is doing.

TMH