[sane-devel] Library functions in backend

[m. allan noah]

Frontends or backends? Either way, I am not opposed to abandoning quirks
for ancient platforms.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 12:29 PM Ralph Little <skelband at gmail.com> wrote:

> There has been a proposal to remove the library replacement functions from
> the backend repo.
> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/frontends/-/merge_requests/11
>
> On the surface, this seems sensible. I can't see that there are many if
> any platforms that the backends repo is built on that wouldn't have these
> functions. In the past, there have certainly been non-standards conformant
> variants (like snprint() on Windows which I believe is now fixed).
>
> What are the general views here? Are there some platform that would still
> require some of these functions?
>
> Cheers,
> Ralph
>


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