[sane-devel] SANE frozen in amber ?

[Julien BLACHE]

Alessandro Zummo <azummo-lists at towertech.it> wrote:

Hi,

>> Why do all 80 backends (as of 1.0.20) _have_ to be released together?
>> Why do all backends that are at the correct API revision _have_ to be
>> released together?
>
>  What happens if the API gets extended somehow? You take
>  them all off the list again and iterate?

Yes, it becomes a mess for everybody when that happens.

And it doesn't make sense anyway. What do we ship as sane-backends if
we release backends on their own? The headers and dll+net+saned? Come
on. And then there's this thing called sanei.

JB.

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