[sane-devel] API addition request

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:58:03 -0400
"m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >  If we have decided to break for sane 2, it might be worthwhile
> >  to do that in such a way to avoid troubles in the future.  
> 
> 
> but this does not avoid troubles, it just pushes them out to the front-end
> developer, forcing him to have multiple branches in his code to deal with
> all the variations. I would much prefer to have the major number of the
> backend be a contract with the front-end author. If that means we have to
> leave some unmaintained backends behind, so be it.

 So you force it to either switch or to maintain two trees.

 Oh well, I do not agree, but.. so be it.

 I'd love to have the media type anyway ;)

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it