[sane-devel] Sane Release 1.1.0 ?

stef stef.dev at free.fr
Tue Nov 4 06:42:25 UTC 2008


Le Monday 03 November 2008 11:04:09 Julien BLACHE, vous avez écrit :
> stef <stef.dev at free.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > 	Whenever a frontend built against SANE 1.0 receive one of the new
> > status, it shows the error properly. Like SANE_STATUS_COVER_OPEN, JAMMED
> > or NO_DOCS, in case of SANE_STATUS_WARMING_UP user has to correct the
> > error condition (in this case just by waiting) before starting a new
> > scan. When the error condition is fixed (scanner is warm enough), the
> > scan goes normally.
>
> I am worried this can break automated frontends in a semi-random way
> as it's possible with some hardware to get back a "warming up" status
> in a middle of a run.
>
> Although the frontends can be fixed pretty easily, it violates the
> principle of least surprise, and it's kind of a problem.
>
> JB.
>
> --
> Julien BLACHE                                   <http://www.jblache.org>
> <jb at jblache.org>                                  GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169

	OK,

	so at least a V_MAJOR increase is needed then.

Regards,
	Stef



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