[sane-devel] Patch to show existense of hpoj backend.

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:19:36 +0200


Hi,

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:24:51PM +0200, abel deuring wrote:
> > > If somebody is a autoconf-guru consider the following change to scripts:
> > > To make configure to take an argument '--with-hpoj' that will uncomment
> > > the hpoj backend line. This may help package creators even more.
> > 
> > Please don't. The normal user may find this configure option and
> > wonders why enabling it doesn't install the hpoj backend.
> 
> Well, we could add a more verbose comment like "if you want to use the
> XYZ backend, you must download and install the stuff from
> http://some.domain/and/path". A user who knows where to find and edit
> dll.conf is probably able to read and understand such a note ;) 

It's ok for me to add commented out external backends to dll.conf
(with appropriate comments in this file and man sane-dll). What I
don't want is changing configure.in.

Bye,
  Henning