"Armistead, Jason" wrote:
>
> Hi Tom (and all on the SANE list)
>
> Thanks to Tom for his pointing out that his sane-bh backend DOES support
> compression.
>
> Why isn't it directly integrated with SANE 1.04 and part of the standard
> distribution ? The latest sane-bh patches are against 1.03, so I guess
> there'll be some extra work required to make it go together with 1.04 ?
>
> The obvious question arises : When is "the next major version of SANE" due
> to be released ? It would seem to me (maybe naively) that scanner-based
> compression is something that has been overlooked in SANE up until now.
>
> Is there any reason that a "reference model" scanner from the SCSI II spec
> wasn't developed as part of SANE, as a basis for all others to be modelled
> on ? Obviously every manufacturer likes to "roll their own" feature set,
> but we seem to be treading on each other's toes by re-inventing at least
> some portion of the wheel for each new scanner. e.g. with sense code /
> qualifier decoding for the various error messages such as ADF jamming.
> Perhaps it's time to look at redesigning the backends to deal with these
> e.g. a function called sane_scsi2_asc60_asq00 might actually handle the SCSI
> 2 ASC60, ASQ00 response code "Lamp failure" for all scanners. Perhaps this
> also lends itself to other (multi language support ?) also if the SANE API
> could be extended to cover some sort of SANE_Status to text translation
> scheme.
>
> Or am I just barking up the wrong tree ???
>
> There also seems to be a large discrepancy in the level of diagnostic given
> in each driver e.g. the Microtek driver seems to be absolutely LOADED with
> debugging information (over 119 printfs, plus stacks of DBG callouts), but
> others have very few at all.
>
> Then again, maybe I'm just used to being pampered by pay-ware rather than
> GPL-ware ;-)
>
> Is there a list of proposed features (or just a wish list by SANE users) for
> the next version ?
>
> Just curious
>
> Jason (who is subscribed to the list and so doesn't need cc-ing)
Jason,
in July or August 1999 was a larger discussion on the Sane mailing list
about a new version of the Sane standard, including the question about
more data formats. Technically quite interesting, I think. Unfortunately
the debate ended up in some not very polite arguments. Since this time,
nobody dared to pick up the topic again.
But I don't think that this outcome is a required feature of GPL
developement, only an optional one ;-)
Abel
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