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

[m. allan noah]

On Dec 21, 2007 12:13 PM, Alessandro Zummo <azummo-lists at towertech.it> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:06:09 -0500
> "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
>  mm. a frontend could display this as a gadget and thus
>  the user could enable a standard the frontend does not support?
>

yes- This is one advantage of a new standard version with a new
SONAME, frontends could be build against it as-is, but frontend
authors get more warning that something has changed.

allan

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