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<h1>Re: PNM backend (was Segfaults in 1.01-pre ...)</h1>
<b>Gregory Brennan</b> (<a href="mailto:gregory.brennan@erols.com"><i>gregory.brennan@erols.com</i></a>)<br>
<i>Wed, 21 Apr 1999 15:07:35 -0400</i>
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I am a fledgling backend writer and I really could use a good template<br>
to start from. I'd be willing to review anything you have in that area<br>
of functionality.<br>
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Tripp Lilley wrote:<br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Nick Lamb wrote:</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; Actually for my purposes the PNM backend isn't very useful anyway. I'm still</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; working on a replacement test backend with behaviour which more closely</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; resembles a real scanner. This should let people fiddle about with front-end</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; code without needing a real scanner to hand, which the PNM backend is barely</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; suitable for even when it works.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; We should probably sync up, then. Work got in the way, but I have been</i><br>
<i>&gt; working on a thoroughly revised PNM backend that serves as (a) a skeleton</i><br>
<i>&gt; backend for fledgling backen writers and (b) a thorough exerciser of</i><br>
<i>&gt; frontends in the style you mention.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; I started rewriting it when I contacted Andreas Beck about the bugs in the</i><br>
<i>&gt; 1.00 version. I was (am) writing a Perl module SANE frontend, and needed</i><br>
<i>&gt; soemthing more robust than my UMAX scanner to exercise the frontend.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; It would make sense for use to put our brains together and share what</i><br>
<i>&gt; progress we've made... I'm sending this to the list because there may be</i><br>
<i>&gt; others, as well, who've made changes to the PNM backend or others that are</i><br>
<i>&gt; relevant to this thread.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; (BTW: re the "sidetracked by work" issue -- not a problem after May 1st.</i><br>
<i>&gt; I've resigned my current position, and my new position, by design, gives</i><br>
<i>&gt; me much more "sanctioned" time to work on SANE and other Open Source</i><br>
<i>&gt; projects).</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
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