[sane-devel] HAL and scanners.

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:21:30 +0100
Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> wrote:

> 
> > what we are talking about will not break those backends, they just
> > wont work immediately with HAL, just like all the weird PP scanners.
> 
> ... this point. If the people proposing the HAL integration and stuff
> today claim to care about the average desktop user, then they have to
> care about proprietary backends.
> 
> Otherwise, they're just producing hot air and not helping anybody
> while doing so, even less so the average desktop user.

 so we should maybe first list the proprietary backends and
 then try to find a contact point for each one of them. 

 so we can at least check that we are not breaking anything. 

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it