Re: How to send in patches/code ....

David Mosberger-Tang (David.Mosberger@acm.org)
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:17:33 -0800

>>>>> On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:58:36 +0100, Feico Dillema <dillema@acm.org> said:

Feico> I'm new to this list, so this may be a simple and obvious
Feico> list of questions. I'm busy adding support for RICOH
Feico> scanners

Great!

Feico> 1. How do I send in little patches for SANE to support these
Feico> scanners (it only needs to recognize some ID-strings).

Just mail me a diff. Unified diffs (diff -u) is my preferred format.

Feico> [snip...]

Feico> 3. I'm considering to start working on a proper SANE backend
Feico> for Ricoh scanners, when I finish the PINT code. Could you
Feico> give me some pointers to information I need to write a SANE
Feico> backend, and in addition give me an indication on how much
Feico> work that would be?

Assuming you've read the SANE API docs already (available at
http://www.mostang.com/sane/), it's generally easiest to start with an
existing backend that's reasonably close to what you need. The
mustek, umax, snapscan, coolscan, tamarack all look fairly full
featured (though I have only seen the Mustek backend in action), so
anyone of those should do.

Cheers,

--david

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