Hi, On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:09:20PM +0200, abel deuring wrote: > >I think we can do this in SANE 1. It's not really a change but an > >addition of a missing definition. We didn't even increase the minor > >version for such changes in the past. Maybe we should? > > well, I don't mind much about the standard version numbering ;) But you > wrote in an earlier mail that some frontends may already support the 1 > bit RGB mode.
xscanimage once did but currently segfaults :-( I think quiteinsane also does. Once we change this I will update the test backend and xscanimage and will tell the quiteinsane author. > Since we should at least change the output of the test > backend to conform with the addition to/clarification of the standard, > the frontends should have some way to detect this change. So we should > perhaps add something like > > "Before Sane release 1.0.9 RGB 1 bit data was stored in the reverse > order." I don't think that this is a good idea because the standard describes the theory and in theory it was undefined. The SANE standard doesn't even know a "SANE release". Just because some implementation chose to use it one way doesn't make it defined. So if anyone is really interested, he can read older standards. That's why I will increase the version number :-) If it's really necessary to point out that it was undefined, we should point to the old version number of the standard. Bye, Henning
