[sane-devel] Sane Release 1.1.0 ?

[m. allan noah]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> wrote:
> "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ok, so how can a front-end know that it has connected to a 1.0
>> backend, since the sane standard states that the minor and point
>> release number are completely under the control of the backend? You
>> want to make the minor number do exactly what the major number is
>> supposed to do!
>
> As long as older frontends don't have to care about running with a
> newer lib, there's no reason to bump the major.

10 mails ago you chewed me out for not thinking about the ecosystem,
and now you mean to ignore half of it?

> The standard was written at a time where adding features in a
> backward-compatible way was probably not standard practice, but it is
> nowadays. We deal with that in GTK and other libs all the time,
> everybody knows how it works and how to work with that. Not to mention
> glibc :)

ok, then how do they do it?

allan
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