On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:

> brad sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
[ . . . ]
> > Are there technical reasons why the above patches shouldn't be applied?
> > The fact that these features will be fixed/supported in a future iscan
> > release is great, but it shouldn't preclude their inclusion in the sane
> > package now.
> 
> As in "damage the hardware"?  Probably not.
> 
> Your patches for Julien's epkowa backend are against code from
> iscan-2.10.  Julien has not upgraded to the sources for iscan-2.11
> yet.  That very understandable because it will break support for all
> models that need an interpreter (except the GT-X770 / Perfection
> V500).  Once AVASYS releases fixed interpreters, all Julien should
> have to do is upgrade to the latest epkowa backend sources.
> 
> Julien is free to decide whether he'll include your patches in his
> sane-backends-extras for the time being and rip them out again when
> upgrading to iscan-2.11 or later.  But I don't quite see a need to
> include them in the AVASYS iscan sources.

Ahh, now I understand.  Thanks for the info.

Obviously, I'd like to seem them applied to the current sane package so I
don't have to maintain my own patch-set :-)  I'll be happy to work with
Julien/whomever to rework the patch when 2.11 gets merged.

-- Brad



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