[sane-devel] scanimage frontend

[Ralph Little]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 7:12 AM James Ring <sjr at jdns.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Would there be any objection if I did some work on tidying up the
> scanimage frontend implementation? Currently, there are some deeply
> nested parts of the scanning code interspersed with ifdefs that make
> it pretty hard to follow.
>
> More controversial question, what about writing some parts of it in
> C++? Applied judiciously, it could make the code easier to maintain.
> My plan would be to use a small subset of C++ (no exceptions, for
> example).
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> Submissions are always welcome.
If it could be made simpler and easier to read and maintain, then I think
that would be a worthwhile improvement.
We do support C++ in SANE now (notably in the genesys backend).

Would be interesting to see what you have in mind.

Cheers,
Ralph
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