[sane-devel] Patch to show existense of hpoj backend.

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:48:45AM +0200, Jarl Friis wrote:
> I suggest the following patch to help sys-admins and package
> maintainers to use sane with the hpoj backend.

There are many external backends, not only hpoj. I think it's the job
of the external package to either add an entry to dll.conf or document
that it's necessary to add one.

> I just read that code-freeze for 1.0.9 is today, so in lack of time
> before code-freeze I have not been able to test the patch, but as the
> change is only comments, it shouldn't be able to destroy anything.

We are already in feature freeze. But I'll add a TODO entry so we can
add commented out external entries for dll.conf in future. But I'm not
sure if this doesn't create too much confusion.

> If somebody is a autoconf-guru consider the following change to scripts:
> To make configure to take an argument '--with-hpoj' that will uncomment
> the hpoj backend line. This may help package creators even more.

Please don't. The normal user may find this configure option and
wonders why enabling it doesn't install the hpoj backend.

> Further I suggest the SANE website maintainer to update the
> http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html
> to reflect the changes (to man-pages) announced by David Paschal in
> August, i.e. the existence of hpoj and recomend hpoj backend (opposed
> to hp backend) for certain HP multifunction devices, but that might
> already be planned with the release of 1.0.9.

Yes, the lists and the man pages will be updated at the time of release.

Bye,
  Henning