[sane-devel] SANE frozen in amber ?

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:35:55 +0200
Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> wrote:

> >  What happens if the API gets extended somehow? You take
> >  them all off the list again and iterate?  
> 
> Yes, it becomes a mess for everybody when that happens.
> 
> And it doesn't make sense anyway. What do we ship as sane-backends if
> we release backends on their own? The headers and dll+net+saned? Come
> on. And then there's this thing called sanei.

 imho the new api should provide a mechanism to extend itself
 in such a way that compatibility is not an issue.

 a frontend that asks for new, unsupported features, will simply
 get an appropriate error code.

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it