[sane-devel] Proposed sane-backends release

m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 12:53:00 UTC 2009


On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:29 AM, stef <stef.dev at free.fr> wrote:
> Le Thursday 02 April 2009 15:17:19 m. allan noah, vous avez écrit :
>> We have a great deal of updated code in SANE CVS, including several
>> new backends. It has been 14+ months since our last release. The big
>> stumbling block so far has been manpower, and uncertainty around the
>> status of updated 'sane 1.1' features. Lately on this list we are
>> repeatedly telling users to compile sane-backends. I propose to
>> rectify this situation by backing out the sane 1.1 specific API
>> changes (new frame types and statuses) and release v 1.0.20.
>>
>> schedule:
>>
>> Feature freeze on April 19, code freeze on April 26, release on May 3.
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>> allan
>> --
>> "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
>
>        Hello,
>
>        you are right, we need to have a release. By backing out, you mean hiding it
> behind #ifdef or do we release on the 1.0 branch ?

just wrap it in an #ifdef (or even #if 0) for now, we are releasing
the successor to 1.0.19, no API changes.

>
>        I hope we'll make up our minds on future plans soon after the release.

I hope so too.

allan

>
> Regards,
>        Stef
>
>
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