Removed link to (non-working) anonymous CVS. Mention CVS snapshots and beta

releases instead. Rewrite the paragraph about frontends. Mention that libusb
is necessary for some backends.  Mention more operating systems. Added contact
section (mostly copying from sane(7)). Minor formatting updates.

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2003-04-20  Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
+
+	* README: Removed link to (non-working) anonymous CVS. Mention CVS
+	  snapshots and beta releases instead. Rewrite the paragraph about
+	  frontends. Mention that libusb is necessary for some backends.
+	  Mention more operating systems. Added contact section (mostly
+	  copying from sane(7)). Minor formatting updates.
+
 2003-04-18  Frank Zago  <fzago at austin dot rr dot com>
 
 	* backend/teco2.c backend/teco2.conf backend/teco2.h

README

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 How to configure, build, and install SANE.
 
+
 Introduction:
 =============
 SANE stands for Scanner Access Now Easy.
@@ -7,22 +8,15 @@ This package contains the SANE libraries (this means backends and
 network scanning parts) and the command line frontend scanimage.
 You always find the most recent version of SANE on:
 
-  http://www.mostang.com/sane
+  http://www.mostang.com/sane/
 
-The source is available via anonymous CVS, hosted by The Hungry
-Programmers. Information on the CVS repository is available from
-<URL:http://www.student.uit.no/~pere/linux/sane/cvs-server.html>.  The
-following will fetch the latests source:
+At the same location there are also links to snapshots of the CVS server and
+sometimes beta releases of sane-backends. These are unstable development
+versions, so be careful when using them. Please report any problems to us. See
+contact section for details.
 
-  cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.hungry.com:/cvsroot login 
-  [password "anoncvs"] 
-  cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.hungry.com:/cvsroot co sane
-
-There are several graphical frontends available for SANE.
-XSane is available on http://www.xsane.org
-The graphical frontends that have been included into the sane package up to
-version sane-1.0.3 (xscanimage and xcam) have been put into an own package
-sane-frontends-1.0.x, this package is available on http://www.mostang.com/sane
+There are several graphical frontends available for SANE, see the list at
+http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-frontends.html.
 
 
 Quick install:
@@ -34,6 +28,7 @@ make install
 
 man sane
 
+
 Prerequisites
 =============
 
@@ -47,26 +42,31 @@ In order to build SANE, the following tools and libraries are required:
 Some more libraries are not strictly necessary to compile SANE, but some
 functionality may be lost if they are not available:
         
-        - libusb (>=0.1.6): For the sm3600 backend. Can also be used for
-          other USB backends especially on non-Linux platforms.
-        - libjpeg (>=6B): For the dc210, dc240, and gphoto2 backends.
-        - libieee1284 (>=0.1.5): For the canon_pp backend.
-        - libgphoto2 (>=2.0beta4dev8): For the gphoto2 backend.
+        - libusb (>=0.1.6): Strongly recommended if you use a USB scanner.
+          Some backends won't work without libusb at all.
 
-SANE should build on most Unix-like systems. Support for OS/2 is also
-available. For more details look at the operating system specific README.*
-files. For a detailed support matrix, see:
+        - libjpeg (>=6B): For the dc210, dc240, and gphoto2 backends.
+
+        - libieee1284 (>=0.1.5): For the canon_pp and hpsj5s backends.
+
+        - libgphoto2 (>=2.0): For the gphoto2 backend.
+
+SANE should build on most Unix-like systems. Support for OS/2, MacOS X and
+BeOS is also available. For more details look at the operating system specific
+README.* files. For a detailed support matrix, see:
 
     http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-support.html
 
-This table may be out of date. Please send any corrections or additions to
-sane-devel@mostang.com together with your platform, os and version.
+This table may be out of date. Please tell us about any corrections or
+additions. Please mention your operating sytem and platform and all the other
+details mentioned in the table. See also the contact section.
 
 Please check that there aren't any older versions of SANE installed on your
-system. Especially if sane-libraries are installed in a different prefix
-directory (e.g. /usr/lib) this may cause problems with external
-frontends. Please remove these libraries (libsane.*, sane/libsane-*) before
-installing this version of SANE.
+system. Especially if SANE libraries are installed in a different prefix
+directory (e.g. /usr/lib/) this may cause problems with external
+frontends. Please remove these libraries (libsane.*, sane/libsane-*) by using
+your packet manager or manually before installing this version of SANE.
+
 
 Configuration
 =============
@@ -146,9 +146,10 @@ Before running any SANE program, read the PROBLEMS file in this directory.
 For information on configuring and trouble-shooting the various SANE
 components, please refer to the manual page sane(7).
 
-The tools directory contains some small programs that may be helpfull. They
+The tools/ directory contains some small programs that may be helpfull. They
 are described in tools/README.
 
+
 Removing
 ========
 
@@ -157,3 +158,19 @@ older versions of SANE if they have been installed at the same prefix.
 Warning: Your configuration will be deleted also so make sure you have a
 backup. By default the configuration files are located in
 the directory /usr/local/etc/sane.d/.
+
+
+Contact
+=======
+
+For general discussion about SANE, bug reports and feature requests contact
+the sane-devel mailing list. You must be subscribed to the list to send
+mail. See http://www.mostang.com/sane/mail.html for details.
+
+If you have a question or bug report for a specific backend, you may also
+contact the author of this backend directly. See the AUTHORS file for a list
+of addresses.
+
+If you don't want to subscribe to sane-devel and want to report bugs
+concerning security, compilation, installation, porting, or documentation of
+SANE, you can also contact Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>.