Re: PNM backend (was Segfaults in 1.01-pre ...)

Gregory Brennan (gregory.brennan@erols.com)
Wed, 21 Apr 1999 15:07:35 -0400

I am a fledgling backend writer and I really could use a good template
to start from. I'd be willing to review anything you have in that area
of functionality.

-Greg

Tripp Lilley wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Nick Lamb wrote:
>
> > Actually for my purposes the PNM backend isn't very useful anyway. I'm still
> > working on a replacement test backend with behaviour which more closely
> > resembles a real scanner. This should let people fiddle about with front-end
> > code without needing a real scanner to hand, which the PNM backend is barely
> > suitable for even when it works.
>
> We should probably sync up, then. Work got in the way, but I have been
> working on a thoroughly revised PNM backend that serves as (a) a skeleton
> backend for fledgling backen writers and (b) a thorough exerciser of
> frontends in the style you mention.
>
> I started rewriting it when I contacted Andreas Beck about the bugs in the
> 1.00 version. I was (am) writing a Perl module SANE frontend, and needed
> soemthing more robust than my UMAX scanner to exercise the frontend.
>
> It would make sense for use to put our brains together and share what
> progress we've made... I'm sending this to the list because there may be
> others, as well, who've made changes to the PNM backend or others that are
> relevant to this thread.
>
> (BTW: re the "sidetracked by work" issue -- not a problem after May 1st.
> I've resigned my current position, and my new position, by design, gives
> me much more "sanctioned" time to work on SANE and other Open Source
> projects).
>
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