Re: sane fronten packages

From: Petter Reinholdtsen (pere@hungry.com)
Date: Thu Oct 19 2000 - 21:05:49 PDT

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    [Oliver Rauch]
    > Yes, I suggest to create 2-3 packages: xcam, xscanimage and may be
    > the Java backend (is that still supported, does it work?)

    I believe we should limit this to 1 package. As a sysadmin, I find it
    truly painfull having to download many packages to test a system. I
    understand you want to keep your xsane separate. I accept that. The
    reason I suggested joining the two was to make it easier for us
    (moving the source into an existing package) and easier for users
    (they get "all" the sane frontends in one package). None of these
    reasons are very convincing. :-)

    I suggest splitting SANE in two:

      - all backends, documentation, scanimage and the Java library
      - all X frontends and scanadf.

    The goal must be to make it possible to upgrade the backends without
    changing the frontends, and to make it possible for users to only
    install the library if they have their own client (ie. xsane).

    I guess it is a good idea to keep scanimage with the backends to have
    a test program available. 

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