Oliver, you are out of order!
The standard may be the undocumented code as implemented, but if
the standard is a bad standard, then the standard should be changed
now, because if it realy is that bad, then it will have to change anyway,
and the sooner the better.
If this is not the forum to discuss what should be and what should not
be developed in the sane suite of products, then where should these
constructive issues be discussed. I assume the programmers who are
working on the sane products want to make constructive improvements,
hence there needs to be a healthy discussion of the various issues.
I want to have this issue properly discussed.
----- Original Message -----
From: Oliver Rauch <oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE>
To: <sane-devel@mostang.com>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: image data format polarity
> Nick Lamb wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone really think it would be a good idea to change an existing
> > > standard in such a point? I don`t think so.
> >
> > Chaper, section, subsection reference to the STANDARD please Oliver,
> > or do you mean "I don't want to change XSane at this point" ? I do not
> > see anything about this mess in the standard, just a clean clear
> > description of the various color depths.
> >
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> it really looks like it is not described in the standard defined in
> sane.[tex,dvi,ps,..]
>
> But this does not change anything here.
>
> There is no reason to discuss it any longer. In this case the standard
> is defined by the existing implementations of it: scanimage, xscanimage
> and xsane use it the same way as almost all backends do.
>
>
> And now I do say something I normally would not do, but I hope I can
> prevent this discussion list and the programmers here from the
> thing that happend last year so I do say it now:
>
> Do you want to mess up the list with a really unnecessary discussion?
> Does this get the same discussion style like last year - a la:
> "I want to have it in another way - there is no advantage of this way but
> I bother all the others until nobody says anything against it" ?
> Please Nick: Let us use our time to do constructive work and not to
> do senseless discussions. If you want to say: "this is a standard
> that I have written" then write your own one but do not disturb the
people
> who want to spend their time for other, consturctive things.
>
> Bye
> Oliver
>
>
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