On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:12:21PM +0100, abel deuring wrote:
> 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.
While it's a convenient excuse that I killed this discussion because
my arguments about the technical content were too much, I think it's
more the case that 99% of list members neither know about nor care about
this stuff. They're mostly looking for simple scanner support for
~$100 scanners which will get their photos or documents into Linux.
We get two or three people a year looking for G3 or JPEG in SANE, versus
two a week wanting support for obscure $50 parport scanners. The result
is that not a lot of work is getting done on SANE 2.0, although I did
finally complete my transfer mini-thesis so I might have more time now.
Nick.
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