[sane-devel] The future of the SANE-Standard

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:06:09 -0500
"m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > only mechanism we have is a well-known option. instead of a boolean,
> > > how about a string list- then a backend can report what versions of
> > > the standard it supports, and the frontend or user can chose.
> >
> >  I guess that would work! :)
> >
> 
> actually- this idea is growing on me. it prevents the need to fork
> sane and do a separate 1.1 branch- we can require that the new frame
> types be protected by '--standard=1.1', and that well-known option can
> have a warning, and front-ends that dont support certain minor
> versions of the standard can hide them, and front-ends that do can
> enable them by default. no bump in the SONAME keeps external backends
> happy.
> 
> there must be some downsides, however- opinions?

 seems fine to me, this would surely help older frontends.


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 Alessandro Zummo,
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