Rick
On 4/26/99 at 4:33 PM, a.deuring@satzbau-gmbh.de (abel deuring) wrote:
> Rick Frank wrote:
>
> > I was wondering how you folks would react to some of us bringing SANE over
to
> > the MacOS? The APIs would be as close as possible, the low level code
would
> of
> > course be different in the current MacOS .
> >
> > I confess to not knowing that much about MacOS X, and MacOS X Server. But as
> > they are going to be somewhat unix based, perhaps the efforts in this area
> > would have good forward migration possibilities for the future.
>
> To get Sane software for Macs would be great. But porting all the
> backends
> to MacOS versions 8.x (or older) might be quite a big task. Especially,
> some
> backends fork an additional process which reads the data from the
> scanner and
> delivers this data to the parent process. I don't know much about the
> internals
> of MacOS, but I guess that this kind of multitasking would be quite
> difficult
> to implement. Since MaxOS X is now available at least as the server
> version,
> and the workstation version will probably also be released in near
> future, I
> think that it would be not worth to put too much effort into porting the
> backends to MaxOS 8.x.
>
> On the other hand, having a frontend for the older MacOS versions, would
> be
> really useful (well, yes, only if the Mac is connected to a LAN where a
> Sane
> server is running, but that would probably be useful in many situations)
>
> Abel
>
> --
> Source code, list archive, and docs: http://www.mostang.com/sane/
> To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe sane-devel | mail majordomo@mostang.com
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Dominion Software, Inc.
825 Beacon Street (617) 332-1144 voice
Newton, MA 02459 (617) 332-5145 fax
info@dominionsw.com
http://www.dominionsw.com
-- Source code, list archive, and docs: http://www.mostang.com/sane/ To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe sane-devel | mail majordomo@mostang.com