SANE ("Scanner Access Now Easy") is a universal scanner interface.
The value of such a universal interface is that it allows writing
just one driver per image acquisition device rather than one driver
for each device and application. So, if you have three applications
and four devices, traditionally you'd have had to write 12 different
programs. With SANE, this number is reduced to seven: the three
applications plus the four drivers. Of course, the savings get even
bigger as more and more drivers and/or applications are added.
sane-backends contains documentation, several backends, scanimage
command line frontend, and networking support. For other/graphical
frontends take a look at sane-frontends and/or xsane.
SANE ("Scanner Access Now Easy") is a universal scanner interface.
The value of such a universal interface is that it allows writing
just one driver per image acquisition device rather than one driver
for each device and application. So, if you have three applications
and four devices, traditionally you'd have had to write 12 different
programs. With SANE, this number is reduced to seven: the three
applications plus the four drivers. Of course, the savings get even
bigger as more and more drivers and/or applications are added.
sane-frontends contains frontends to SANE including xscanimage and
xcam. Xscanimage is a GTK-based application for scanning images that
can also be used as a GIMP-plugin, and Xcam is used to get images
from cameras supported by SANE.
libv4l is a collection of libraries which adds a thin abstraction layer on
top of video4linux2 devices. The purpose of this (thin) layer is to make it
easy for application writers to support a wide variety of devices without
having to write separate code for different devices in the same class. libv4l
consists of 3 different libraries: libv4lconvert, libv4l1 and libv4l2.
libv4lconvert offers functions to convert from any (known) pixel-format
to V4l2_PIX_FMT_BGR24 or V4l2_PIX_FMT_YUV420.
libv4l1 offers the (deprecated) v4l1 API on top of v4l2 devices, independent
of the drivers for those devices supporting v4l1 compatibility (which many
v4l2 drivers do not).
libv4l2 offers the v4l2 API on top of v4l2 devices, while adding for the
application transparent libv4lconvert conversion where necessary.
libv4l is a collection of libraries which adds a thin abstraction layer on
top of video4linux2 devices. The purpose of this (thin) layer is to make it
easy for application writers to support a wide variety of devices without
having to write separate code for different devices in the same class. libv4l
consists of 3 different libraries: libv4lconvert, libv4l1 and libv4l2.
libv4lconvert offers functions to convert from any (known) pixel-format
to V4l2_PIX_FMT_BGR24 or V4l2_PIX_FMT_YUV420.
libv4l1 offers the (deprecated) v4l1 API on top of v4l2 devices, independent
of the drivers for those devices supporting v4l1 compatibility (which many
v4l2 drivers do not).
libv4l2 offers the v4l2 API on top of v4l2 devices, while adding for the
application transparent libv4lconvert conversion where necessary.
ADOdb stands for Active Data Objects Data Base.
ADOdb is a database abstraction library for PHP.
The PHP version currently supports an amazing number of databases,
thanks to the wonderful ADOdb community:
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase, Firebird, Informix, Oracle, MS SQL, Foxpro,
Access, ADO, Sybase, FrontBase, DB2, SAP DB, SQLite, Netezza, LDAP, and generic
ODBC, ODBTP.
The Sybase, Informix, FrontBase and PostgreSQL, Netezza, LDAP, ODBTP drivers
are community contributions.
APQ is a database interface library written in Ada95. This is the base
library, but it is not useful without a driver. There are three drivers
available for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and ODBC in separate ports.
Some features:
* Thick binding
* Strong typing support
* Full BLOB support (PGSQL)
* High performance BLOB I/O via streams
* Full support for NULL Values
* Fully portable (database neutral) code possible
* Four levels of debug tracing
ADOdb stands for Active Data Objects Data Base.
ADOdb is a database abstraction library for PHP.
The PHP version currently supports an amazing number of databases,
thanks to the wonderful ADOdb community:
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase, Firebird, Informix, Oracle, MS SQL, Foxpro,
Access, ADO, Sybase, FrontBase, DB2, SAP DB, SQLite, Netezza, LDAP, and generic
ODBC, ODBTP.
The Sybase, Informix, FrontBase and PostgreSQL, Netezza, LDAP, ODBTP drivers
are community contributions.
rebar is an Erlang build tool that makes it easy to compile and test Erlang
applications, port drivers and releases.
rebar is a self-contained Erlang script, so it's easy to distribute or even
embed directly in a project. Where possible, rebar uses standard Erlang/OTP
conventions for project structures, thus minimizing the amount of build
configuration work. rebar also provides dependency management, enabling
application writers to easily re-use common libraries from a variety of
locations (git, hg, etc).
rebar 3.0 is an Erlang build tool that makes it easy to compile and
test Erlang applications, port drivers and releases.
rebar is a self-contained Erlang script, so it's easy to distribute
or even embed directly in a project. Where possible, rebar uses
standard Erlang/OTP conventions for project structures, thus
minimizing the amount of build configuration work. rebar also
provides dependency management, enabling application writers to
easily re-use common libraries from a variety of locations (git,
hg, etc).
XML::SAX consists of several framework classes for using and building Perl SAX2
XML parsers, filters, and drivers. It is designed around the need to be able
to "plug in" different SAX parsers to an application without requiring
programmer intervention. Those of you familiar with the DBI will be right at
home. Some of the designs come from the Java JAXP specification (SAX part),
only without the javaness.