[sane-devel] moving to C11 or later?

[Simon Matter]

Hi,
Am 16. August 2026 um 21:00 schrieb "James Ring" <sjr at jdns.org mailto:sjr at jdns.org?to=%22James%20Ring%22%20%3Csjr%40jdns.org%3E >:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there any interest in requiring C11 or later in sane-backends? It
> would be nice to be able to delete sane's copies of e.g. snprintf,
> getenv.
> 
> How about cleaning up the build a bit? Perhaps moving away from
> autotools and towards something like cmake?
> 
> I have some free time coming up and I'd be interested in helping the
> sane project in these or any other ways where there's a need.
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
I'm wondering if working on some backend without maintainer would be something you could do? I've got the impression that certain backends could benefit a lot.

Simon
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