[sane-devel] API addition request

[Julien BLACHE]

Alessandro Zummo <azummo-lists at towertech.it> wrote:

Hi,

>  The problem with SANE is that you might loose support for hardware
>  which is still in use. 

Most of the unmaintained backends are for hardware that's so old
nobody has used it in the past *years* with SANE, in some case even
without SANE. So that really doesn't hold in the general case.

>  Most projects do not carry on hw driver and those who do and followed
>  the path you suggested (i.e. ati and nvidia graphics drivers)... well..
>  let's just say that the users did not appreciate.

They can contribute or STFU. Whatever suits them best.

JB.

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