[sane-devel] HAL and scanners.

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Wed Mar 19 14:39:36 UTC 2008


Hello,

On Mar 19 10:18 m. allan noah wrote (shortened):
> ... small concerns about this plan: replication of naming code
> makes that convention a de facto API, and what about external
> backends?

Isn't the worst case when the udev/HAL/whatever magic fails
that there is no nice "just works" experience for the user?

I.e. the user may only have to launch the appropriate application
manually or re-start it.

If I am right, such a convention is not actually an API
(fatal crash if something doesn't match to the API)
but just a nice-to-have convention for a nice-to-have
"just works" experience.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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