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<h1>Re: SANE on MacOS, MacOS X ?</h1>
<b>abel deuring</b> (<a href="mailto:a.deuring@satzbau-gmbh.de"><i>a.deuring@satzbau-gmbh.de</i></a>)<br>
<i>Mon, 26 Apr 1999 16:33:26 +0200</i>
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Rick Frank wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; I was wondering how you folks would react to some of us bringing SANE over to</i><br>
<i>&gt; the MacOS? The APIs would be as close as possible, the low level code would of</i><br>
<i>&gt; course be different in the current MacOS .</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; I confess to not knowing that much about MacOS X, and MacOS X Server. But as</i><br>
<i>&gt; they are going to be somewhat unix based, perhaps the efforts in this area</i><br>
<i>&gt; would have good forward migration possibilities for the future.</i><br>
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To get Sane software for Macs would be great. But porting all the<br>
backends<br>
to MacOS versions 8.x (or older) might be quite a big task. Especially,<br>
some<br>
backends fork an additional process which reads the data from the<br>
scanner and<br>
delivers this data to the parent process. I don't know much about the<br>
internals<br>
of MacOS, but I guess that this kind of multitasking would be quite<br>
difficult<br>
to implement. Since MaxOS X is now available at least as the server<br>
version, <br>
and the workstation version will probably also be released in near<br>
future, I<br>
think that it would be not worth to put too much effort into porting the <br>
backends to MaxOS 8.x.<br>
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On the other hand, having a frontend for the older MacOS versions, would<br>
be <br>
really useful (well, yes, only if the Mac is connected to a LAN where a<br>
Sane<br>
server is running, but that would probably be useful in many situations)<br>
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Abel<br>
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