[sane-devel] XSane GIMP support

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Ralph,

Ralph Little writes:

> Hi,
> Has anyone a view on support for "older" GIMPs?
>
> I currently use GIMP 2.10 which has the new CEGL conversions added.
> Many of the compiler warnings I am having to deal with relate to
> deprecated pre-CEGL GIMP plugin functionality.
>
> My feeling is that a V1.0.0 XSane should support fairly recent versions
> of things.
> My thoughts are that people using GIMP tend to keep up-to-date but I
> know that some, perhaps more casual users are on older release tracks in
> Debian etc and I don't want to break their use cases.
>
> One possibility might be to try to support the newer AND older versions
> with configured version detection. The GIMP plugin stuff is fairly isolated.
> Conversion to CEGL involves a fair amount of work to use the new
> CEGL-related function set. It looks a lot different.
> I could do that, but perhaps it is not worthwhile?
>
> Any thoughts?

Yup, I just added them to the issue you submitted ;-)

 https://gitlab.com/sane-project/frontend/xsane/issues/14

Hope this helps,
--
Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2            FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27
 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13  F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9
 Support Free Software                        https://my.fsf.org/donate
 Join the Free Software Foundation              https://my.fsf.org/join