[sane-devel] Epson Perfection V37/v200 support SANE.

[Camil Băncioiu]

Hi Olaf,

I sent my code to linux-scanner at epson dot jp, which appears in the .dsc
file you linked. I had previously sent it to the Slackware maintainer of
the iscan package, as Slackware seems to have build their own package
directly from source. By comparison, Arch only has a package which
downloads iscan from the Epson website and installs it (no binaries
delivered).

I hope either Epson or Slackware apply this change on their source code,
because 16-bit scanning is absolutely required when scanning analog
photographic film and it sucks to boot into Windows or start a VM when it
should work with the native Linux driver.

Best regards,
Camil

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 5:00 AM Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-hack at member.fsf.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> m. allan noah writes:
>
> > I think the authors of the code you are patching are not on this
> > mailing list, as they are not members of the sane project.
>
> # Since I wrote that code, FIXME included, the author actually *is* on
> # this list ;-) but I am no longer involved in any work on the "official
> # driver".
>
> The code Camil has patched is part of the epkowa backend, a third party
> backend not included with our SANE backends.
>
> You may try sending a patch to the maintainer of the iscan package.
> My personal experience with that is that you will not get any reply but
> occasionally I have found my suggestions/patches back in later releases
> of their packages.
>
> BTW, the maintainer mail address can be found in
>
>   http://support.epson.net/linux/src/scanner/iscan/iscan_2.30.3-1.dsc
>
> > allan
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 1:41 PM Robert A. Schmied <uwppp at flash.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> aloha camil
> >>
> >> hopefully posting to the sane development list will suffice,
> >> but there might also be a sane bugs url as well.  if so, it
> >> should be listed http://www.sane-project.org/ under reporting bugs.
> >>
> >> that is about the best we users can really do; bring issues
> >> to the attention of the active development team and hope they
> >> take action ...
> >>
> >> regards
> >>
> >> ras
> >>
> >>
> >> Camil Băncioiu wrote:
> >> > Does anyone know to whom should I send the modified function which
> enables
> >> > 16-bit scanning in Linux? It would be great if the official Epson
> driver
> >> > will integrate it.
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 4:35 PM Camil Băncioiu <
> ioan.camil.bancioiu at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> > [...]
>
> Hope this helps,
> --
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