[sane-devel] The future of the SANE-Standard

[Julien BLACHE]

"m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

> if i understand your list, there is a 4th option- add and _inform_ by
> SONAME/version# change.

If we can avoid it, we should really avoid it. Though as you note it's
the proper course of action if the changes are important enough that
things could break.

> Bumping the SONAME seems to be the only way to make the outside world
> aware that they should inspect their code for compatibility, but even
> if they do not, it will still work, since these new frame types will
> not be the default case. It also prevents us from having to do any
> modifications to the dozens of existing backends that wont have the
> new frame types or options. (unlike b and c).

I think bumping the SONAME is going to have interesting effects wrt
proprietary backends. Now that I think about it ... :>

JB.

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