[sane-devel] Sane Release 1.1.0 ?

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Nov 6 08:44 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (shortened):
>   - will a version 2 dll backend still load version 1 backends?
>   - can version 2 frontends use version 1 backends?
>   - will version 1 frontends do the right thing with all version 2
>     backends?
>   - can everyone find the right match of versions?
>
> The mixed version installations is something that distribution will
> care about.  A lot.  Any distribution people hanging around that want
> to chime in here?

If a mixed version installation does not work well,
we can only wait and keep the old stuff until all
what is important for us (sane-backends, sane-frontends,
xsane, KDE scanning frontend) is ready to work
and then switch completely to the new stuff.

Backward compatibility (i.e. have no regression bugs)
is usually more important than new features, in particular
when new features are not essential to use a scanner.
Additionally there is the LSB standard...

By the way:
Because of this we still have Iscan version 2.10, see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425743


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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