[sane-devel] SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE (was Re: Preparing for a sane-backends release)

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Aug 5 09:53 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote (excerpt):
> m. allan noah writes:
>
>> I removed SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE because it was not in the sane
>> standard
...
> Distributions don't get to decide the SANE standard ;-)

Of course not!
Distributions only try to keep things working when things break
between various upstream projects (see my other mail).


> If any frontends still use it, it is those frontends that need fixing.

In theory yes.
I practice it is me who is blamed when sane-backends "break" other
frontends and then I must "fix" sane-backends (see my other mail).


Only for the fun:
It is the same when other programs use undocumented private API
calls from CUPS (e.g. by blind copy and paste CUPS source code).
When later the other programs break because CUPS' private API
changed, then they cry "CUPS is to blame: CUPS is broken" ;-)


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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