Hi Rolf,
Rolf Bensch writes:
> Hi Allan,
>
> If I'm checking the version with scanimage, I get this back:
>
> $ scanimage -V
> scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.27git; backend version 1.0.27
>
> Maybe the backend version should also show 1.0.27git?
The backend version bit shows whatever sane_init gets back as the
version of the backend. In most situations that will be the dll
backend but you could set up your system to have scanimage use a
specific backend directly. So for the pixma backend that becomes
1.0.17, if I got my maths right.
This is compliant with the SANE spec. You're supposed to return the
*backend* version in the sane_init() call. The *backend* version is
defined in section 4.1:
SANE version control also includes a minor version number and a build
revision. While control of these numbers remains with the implementor
of a backend, the recommended use is as follows. The minor version is
incremented with each official release of a backend. The build
revision is increased with each build of a backend.
So a backend could even return something like 1.5.123, as long as the
major version matches the major version of the SANE API it provides.
There is actually quite a bit of misunderstanding of the use of version
numbers in sane-backends but that's a long story. It involves package
version, SANE API version, dynamic library versioning as well as backend
versions. The problem is that people tend to assume it's all the same
thing while in fact they are all very different and mostly independent.
Hope this helps,
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