[sane-devel] new frame types (again)

[louis at lagendijk.xs4all.nl]

> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Alessandro Zummo
> <azummo-lists at towertech.it> wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:45:47 -0400
>> "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 're-open the discussion' != 'remove the #if 0'
>
> frankly, it is bad when we don't do frequent releases, and so we tell
> users of new equipment that they have to build from git repo, but the
> git repo uses a different API.
>
> so- lets release current tree as 1.0.21 in one month. At the same
> time, we finalize the 2.0 spec. If we keep it small, we can do a 2.0
> release around Jan 1. I'm pretty busy, but if i can get some help we
> can swing it.
>
+1, the changes we have seen since the last release warrant another 1.x
release without API changes

> i am sure sane 1.0.21 and sane 2.0.0 will have to live concurrently
> for a little while, so we will have to keep that in mind.
>
> comments?
>
Do we have agreement on what changes we need to make to the API for 2.x?
How big will be the impact on the clients? Is this really big enough to
require a parallel support?  I would see a 1.0.21 as a bugfix release.
Would you want to add new scanners to the 1.0.x relase after 1.0.21? What
will be the maintenance policy?


Louis