On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:14:08 +0100 Ren? Rebe <rene at exactcode.de> wrote:
> > I find this alarming for two different reasons. First of all SANE > already > historically had a slow release cycle and it should not follow other > projects > into slow and ever breaking development. slow? it wasn't slow, it was frozen. :) > Additionally; How big can the changes be? IMHO SANE should rather > be incrementally and compatible changed for newer features, simillar > as POSIX standards or Linux develops. So that no fundamental > incompatibilities are created. the target is to maintain compatibility. > For me it is not the feature set of SANE would require a major over- > haul. It would be rather nicer to changes the interna of SANE to avoid > code bloat, such as re-implementation of calibration, gamma table > use etc. pp. to not re-implement all this in every backend. However > that could be archived without breaking the API for frontends or > existing > backends. that would be a very good effort! -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it
