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

[Jarl Friis]

Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de> writes:

> 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.

I see your point in not changing configure.in.

But yes it sounds like a really good choice to maybe have a larger
commented section with external backend description details, an entry
for hpoj could look like
#
# HP OfficeJet backend
# Homepage: http://hpoj.sf.net/
# Uncomment the following line if hpoj is installed:
#hpoj
#
# Another external backend
# Homepage: http://some.domain/and/path
# ...

Or something like that, All these comments on external backends could
be at the end of the dll.conf. This should make it little easier for
package builders and sys-administrators.

Jarl