[sane-devel] The future of the SANE-Standard (was: permission request)

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:48:54 +0100
Oliver Rauch <Oliver.Rauch at Rauch-Domain.DE> wrote:

> I don`t understand why nobody wants to start with SANE2. It will take a
> weekend of work to create a SANE2 backend from an existing SANE1
> backend. Because you don`t want to spend this time you destroy the SANE1
> standard by creating a chaos.

 I don't think that anybody wants to NOT start it, but that nobody
 wants to write the core. I truly believe that if someone pledges
 to write it, the most important backends will follow quickly.
 
> As you say 95% of the users are happy with SANE1. What you are doing now
> is to make 95% of the users unhappy.

 I don't think so. I'm going to make the other 5% happy. 

> When you will do what you are talking about in the moment then I will
> have to think if I will spend any further time into the SANE project and
> into xsane. I know if I would continue the work for xsane in this case
> then I would have to spend 99% of my programming time to answer
> questions about incompatibilities and problems with the new
> "1.1-standard".

 1.1 will be 99% compatible with 1.0. I don't believe that fixing that 1%
 will require 9% of your programming time.

> In my opinion it is not fair to create so much problems for SANE1
> because you don`t like to spend some days to create SANE2 backends from
> the SANE1 backends.
> 
> Please think about what you are doing.

 As I, and many other developers, already said, I'm willing to create backends
 if someone writes the core and transport.

 Do you want to be that someone?

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it