[sane-devel] [RFC] how to enable 1.1 features

[m. allan noah]

On 2/28/08, Alessandro Zummo <azummo-lists at towertech.it> wrote:
>  > >  >   The fact that the code exists do not make it less ugly.
>  > >
>  > >  ah- it might not be perfect, but it MUST continue to exist, so lets
>  > >  use it instead of adding a new interface, and requiring authors that
>  > >  want their frontends to build against old sane to add ifndef's to
>  > >  handle the missing new macros.
>
>  Why an 1.1 COMPLIANT frontend should be allowed to compile against 1.0 SANE?
>
>   I've never seen in my whole life any other library that has such
>   a requirement. When the library version changes, you have to change
>   the headers.

AND YOU ALSO ALWAYS CHANGE THE SONAME. is that clear enough?

allan
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