[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

[m. allan noah]

On 5/8/08, Alessandro Zummo <azummo-lists at towertech.it> wrote:
> On Thu, 08 May 2008 13:56:45 +0200
>
> Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> wrote:
>
>
> > "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > > still not sure how to document that requirement for the front-end
>  > > author, because those device names will vary quite a bit between
>  > > platforms...
>  >
>  > "Use the device name returned by the backend unless you know damn well
>  > what you are doing".
>  >
>  > There, done. ;)
>
>
>  :) libusb is probably used in 90% of the user base.. shouldn't be a problem,
>   unless someone is really using a 2.4 kernel with /dev/scanner

typical linux developer response :) sane builds on alot of other
systems- e.g. the OSX libusb names are really long GUID-looking
things...

allan
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