primax: SANE Backend
Subject:
Re: SANE Backend
From:
C Hennessy ####@####.####
Date:
30 Aug 2000 23:54:29 -0000
Message-Id: <39AD9ED9.32E820C9@iname.com>
Christian Biesinger wrote:
>
> C Hennessy schrieb:
> > Andre Herms wrote:
> > > > Is anyone working on a Sane Backend for primax parallelport scanners?
> > >
> > > I do it actually.
> > >
> > > It's not a real backend for the scanner. I decided to write a meta backend,
> > > that contacts to a server. The server code is most of the primaxscan code. So
> > > it would be easy to update the backend code when primaxscan changes.
> >
> > So if I understand this better then you mean that we would have both the
> > sane
> > demon plus a primaxscan demon running at the same time ?
>
> He wrote to me in a personal mail (though I don't know if he did it
> intentionally) that this had the following reason: When a client
> connects to the server, the server switches the scanner light on. When
> the client disconnects, it remains switched on for some time (I hope I
> got it right).
>
> > If this is so, is it not more complicated than integrating primaxscan into sane ?
> > ANd then updates of primaxscan, so that there would be a library which the
> > primaxsane backend would simply link against. This would also allow us
> > to continue to build the primaxscan binary.
>
> I'm not sure if I got you right here.
> I think what you want is the following:
> A library which both the sane backend and the current binary link
> against, so that both versions benefit from improvements and bug fixes.
>
> If this is what you want, I think it's a great idea!
Yes, it is what I meant.
How feasible is this ?
CP
