On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Alessandro Zummo <azummo-lists at towertech.it> wrote: > On Mon, 5 May 2008 13:56:58 -0400 > "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > 3. Two new return codes: SANE_STATUS_HW_LOCK to tell the frontend that the > > scanner has a hardware lock installed, and SANE_STATUS_WARMING_UP for lamp. > > it would be fine if we can keep those in sync with sane evolution.
Sane Evo is the fork. It is the fork's job to keep up with mainline :) > > > > 4. More SANE_FRAME types, jpeg, fax, IR, text, xml. > > those should already be in sync. it should noted that some frontends > might just crash if given a new frame type. > > > > > > 6. Add common configuration reading function in sanei_* so that new or > > maintained backends can benefit from it. Wholesale config file > restructuring? > > that would be real good! I was thinking about it but never had the time > to implement :( > > I'm not sure it's worthwhile to bump the version to 1.1 given there > are no incompatibilities. you've just stated that poorly written front-ends may crash, that is enough incompatibility to justify the minor version bump. Lets discuss which features are appropriate to a 1.1.0 release, not what to call it. allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
