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<h1>Re: SANE on MacOS, MacOS X ?</h1>
<b>Rick Frank</b> (<a href="mailto:rfrank@dominionsw.com"><i>rfrank@dominionsw.com</i></a>)<br>
<i>Mon, 26 Apr 1999 14:22:06 -0400</i>
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I wasn't thinking so much a "port", but rather, support for the API, middle<br>
ware, so to speak, so that the applications don't need to know details. The<br>
lowest level backend code would not be the same, of course.<br>
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On 4/26/99 at 4:33 PM, <a href="mailto:a.deuring@satzbau-gmbh.de">a.deuring@satzbau-gmbh.de</a> (abel deuring) wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; Rick Frank wrote:</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; I was wondering how you folks would react to some of us bringing SANE over</i><br>
to<br>
<i>&gt; &gt; the MacOS? The APIs would be as close as possible, the low level code</i><br>
would <br>
<i>&gt; of</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; course be different in the current MacOS .</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; I confess to not knowing that much about MacOS X, and MacOS X Server. But as</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; they are going to be somewhat unix based, perhaps the efforts in this area</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; would have good forward migration possibilities for the future.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; To get Sane software for Macs would be great. But porting all the</i><br>
<i>&gt; backends</i><br>
<i>&gt; to MacOS versions 8.x (or older) might be quite a big task. Especially,</i><br>
<i>&gt; some</i><br>
<i>&gt; backends fork an additional process which reads the data from the</i><br>
<i>&gt; scanner and</i><br>
<i>&gt; delivers this data to the parent process. I don't know much about the</i><br>
<i>&gt; internals</i><br>
<i>&gt; of MacOS, but I guess that this kind of multitasking would be quite</i><br>
<i>&gt; difficult</i><br>
<i>&gt; to implement. Since MaxOS X is now available at least as the server</i><br>
<i>&gt; version, </i><br>
<i>&gt; and the workstation version will probably also be released in near</i><br>
<i>&gt; future, I</i><br>
<i>&gt; think that it would be not worth to put too much effort into porting the </i><br>
<i>&gt; backends to MaxOS 8.x.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; On the other hand, having a frontend for the older MacOS versions, would</i><br>
<i>&gt; be </i><br>
<i>&gt; really useful (well, yes, only if the Mac is connected to a LAN where a</i><br>
<i>&gt; Sane</i><br>
<i>&gt; server is running, but that would probably be useful in many situations)</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Abel</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
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