Re: Documentation updates?

From: Bill Thompson (billt@samart.co.th)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 20:58:40 PST

  • Next message: Petter Reinholdtsen: "Re: Documentation updates?"

    Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
    >
    > Before we release a new version, I think a few documents should be
    > updated.
    >
    > The valid return values for sane_init() are unspecified. This was
    > discussed in april (thread "May sane_init fail?"), where the problem
    > was left unsolved. My proposal to require sane_init to return
    > SANE_STATUS_GOOD before the backend could be used (this is how the dll
    > backend works) was not accepted.
    >
    > How to handle Automatic Document Feeders (ADF) is not documented.
    > This is now handled by some backends and both scanimage and xsane, but
    > as far as I know, the details are not written down anywhere.
    >
    > Are there more topics that need to be resolved?

      The missing 'sane-epson-doc.html' file.
    >
    > There should also be a new chapter in the documentation with
    > information on the sanei API. As far as I know, there exist no
    > documentation on this API.
    >
    > The SANE Mustek 600 III EP Plus backend will need to be rewritten to
    > use the sanei_pio API before I will accept it into the distribution.
    > The author did not know about the sanei_pio API, and used Linux's
    > ioperm() instead. I believe more documentation would have avoided
    > this.
    > --
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      Bill

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