[sane-devel] LSB DDK: Support for scanner drivers/SANE into LSB 3.2?

[Till Kamppeter]

René Rebe wrote:
> On Friday 22 June 2007 13:30:13 Till Kamppeter wrote:
>> René Rebe wrote:
>>>> Hase the SANE2 development actually started? What are the limitations of 
>>> Don't think so.
>>>
>> [...]
>>> I think SANE 1 is pretty fine and in too wide use to abondone. Features
>>> of new scanners, such as JPEG and infrared frames can easily be added
>>> without breaking anything, just new types.
>>>
>>> I think most SANE 2 jadda jadda is driven by some "let's rewrite everything
>>> so that it looks prettier" without thinking about the aspects like:
>>>
>>>  - enforcing all application support to be rewritten
>>>  - probably loosing a lot of old driver noone will port to SANE 2
>>>
>>> and probably:
>>>
>>>  - not enough volunteers to rewrite everything from scratch
>>>
>>> which is possibly why no SANE 2 code despite a lot of SPEC talking
>>> has seen the wild, yet.
>>>
>> [...]
>>> As a company having Open Source scanning solutions in production,
>>> and helping other companies to do so I appreciate this efford and would
>>> help - however I can only do so if SANE 2 development does not throw
>>> all away that we built up the last 10 years.
>> I think under these circumstances it is the best to simply go ahead and 
>> do everything to get the current SANE into the LSB. The time is much 
>> better invested for getting SANE into the LSB than for writing a new 
>> SANE. Current SANE in LSB will make many manufacturers start supporting 
>> Linux immediately. SANE2 will make a big confusion and repel the 
>> manufacturers.
>>
>> So I recommend for the best for Linux on the desktop and for the SANE 
>> project is to concentrate on getting SANE into the LSB now.
> 
> Yes, this is my talking for a long time. Unfortunatly some SANE
> developers lobby for the SANE2 from scratch.
> 
> I take a look into what is necessary to get SANE into the LSB over
> the weekend.
> 
> Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
> 
> Yours,
> 

Any progress on preparing SANE for getting it into the LSB?

    Till