From 4a2b75277753448d1c2a0fb555a4f122eeb486e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henning Geinitz <sane@geinitz.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:56:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added links to sanei and other developer docs.

---
 docs.html | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs.html b/docs.html
index 959c68fa..512ab2e9 100644
--- a/docs.html
+++ b/docs.html
@@ -69,9 +69,9 @@
       </li>
     </ul>
 
-    <h2>Programmer's Manual (SANE Standard)</h2>
+    <h2>Programmer's Documentation</h2>
 
-    <h3>Version 1.0 (stable)</h3>
+    <h3>SANE Standard Version 1.0 (stable)</h3>
     <p>
       The document for the SANE API and the network protocol is
       available in a number of formats:
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
       </li>
     </ul>
 
-    <h3>Version 2.0 (development)</h3>
+    <h3>SANE Standard Version 2.0 (development)</h3>
     <p>
       The SANE standard version 2 is currently in development. It shouldn't be
       used yet for production software because some important parts are still
@@ -123,6 +123,28 @@
       </li>
     </ul>
       
+    <h3>Miscellaneous Documentation for SANE Programmers</h3>
+    <p>
+      The following documentation is for developers who intend to include their backends/frontend in
+      the SANE distribution or want to use the framework of the SANE distribution.
+    </p>
+
+    <ul>
+      <li>
+	The <a href="contrib.html">page about contributing to SANE</a> contains some basic
+	information on how to start writing a backend.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+	The sane-backends distribution comes with a file <a
+	href="backend-writing.txt">doc/backend-writing.txt</a> which contains a lot of hints on
+	how to write a backend.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+	The <a href="sanei/">sanei functions</a> should be used by backend programmers whenever
+	possible. They contain code for hardware and file access and lots of little helper
+	functions.
+      </li>
+    </ul>
 
     <h2>Related Documentation</h2>
     <ul>