[sane-devel] new SANE hpoj backend

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:36:15PM -0800, David Paschal wrote:
> Hi, Henning.  I was hoping for a fairly generic entry with links to my
> project's main and supported-devices pages to get more specific information.
> I update my website whenever new models come out or whenever I release a
> new version of the software, and those events tend not to be synchronized
> with SANE releases, which is when the SANE supported-devices page is
> updated from the information in the latest .desc files.  If hpoj.desc
> were more specific, then there would be periods of time when the web
> version of it would be stale.  I noticed that several other backends'
> entries also lack a version number,

That's a bug. But it's not a big problem in this case because all those
backends are included in the SANE distribution.
When I have some time and a good idea I want to split the page into
included and not included backends so they can be updated more
regularly.

> so it certainly isn't alone.  :-)
> How about if I put something like "(external)" for the version?

I think that's ok.

> For the
> model field, I could be more specific about the names of supported product
> lines, such as "Most HP OfficeJet, LaserJet, and PSC multi-function
> peripherals", which, although more verbose, might catch people's attention
> better, and then they could click on the link to see exactly which models
> were supported at that time.

Ok.

Bye,
  Henning