[sane-devel] Sane Release 1.1.0 ?

[m. allan noah]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Ilia Sotnikov <hostcc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for jumping into the discussion but why don't we use
> sane_get_option_descriptor() / sane_control_option() on a new
> predefined option, for example, "sane-version-features", which could
> be read by a frontend and if, no error occured, set to required SANE
> API level (aka. additional features available), specific bitmask etc.
> Doing that we could avoid any changes in already used API. And when
> such an option is set by a frontend, backends could start using
> additional SANE_Status.
>
> The implementation of such a solutions is rather simple.

I worry that a simple sane1 front-end might expose that option to the
user, who might set it, then the front-end blows up anyway? But, there
might be a way to set the caps on the option to hide it, and yet,
still let the front-end change it?

allan
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