[sane-devel] proposal for enabling 1.1 features

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:19:53 -0500
"m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > i dont say that this is a likely situation, but you are requiring that
> > > all front-ends be modified to use sane 1.1 features.
> >
> >  no, I'm not requiring this. why? an 1.0 fronted will just work.
> >
> >  only an 1.1 frontend will have to use the mechanism to activate
> >  1.1 features.
> 
> fair enough, but why go thru all the trouble with extending existing
> functions? a simple well-known option would be enough?

 a well known option would solve the problem, but an user can activate
 it by chance. and we don't want to hassle frontend authors with
 emails from angry users :-D

 with the proposed way, only a frontend can activate it and it would even
 work when we will make the switch to sane 2.0 .

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it