[sane-devel] new frame types (again)

[m. allan noah]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:05 AM,  <louis at lagendijk.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Alessandro Zummo
>> <azummo-lists at towertech.it> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:45:47 -0400
>>> "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 're-open the discussion' != 'remove the #if 0'
>>
>> frankly, it is bad when we don't do frequent releases, and so we tell
>> users of new equipment that they have to build from git repo, but the
>> git repo uses a different API.
>>
>> so- lets release current tree as 1.0.21 in one month. At the same
>> time, we finalize the 2.0 spec. If we keep it small, we can do a 2.0
>> release around Jan 1. I'm pretty busy, but if i can get some help we
>> can swing it.
>>
> +1, the changes we have seen since the last release warrant another 1.x
> release without API changes
>
>> i am sure sane 1.0.21 and sane 2.0.0 will have to live concurrently
>> for a little while, so we will have to keep that in mind.
>>
>> comments?
>>
> Do we have agreement on what changes we need to make to the API for 2.x?

no

> How big will be the impact on the clients?

unknown, but hopefully small.

> Is this really big enough to
> require a parallel support?

I would prefer not to, but there are lots of private and custom
front-ends out there, which might take some time to change.

> I would see a 1.0.21 as a bugfix release.

Because we are always adding new scanners, we never make 'just' at
bugfix release.

> Would you want to add new scanners to the 1.0.x relase after 1.0.21? What
> will be the maintenance policy?

Undecided.

allan
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