On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:47:49 +0100 Oliver Rauch <Oliver.Rauch at Rauch-Domain.DE> wrote:
> > yes, it takes a specialized frontend to use these new frame types, but > > the user has to set an option to enable them, and it's really no more > > than a single line added to an enum in sane.h, so 'force' is really > > not the right word at all. > > > Adding something to an enum is a really bad idea because you can not > test if this item is listed in the enum, you will get a lot of probelms > with this. why? if every frontend has a correct handling in the default: case of the switch() statement, it can just throw an error. > We can talk about starting SANE2 and I will create a SANE2 compilant > version of xsane. But I will not produce any mixes between SANE1 and > SANE2 for xsane. the beauty of that is that xsane would continue to work with no problems at all. as a matter of fact, 95% of sane users will just need RGB or GRAY. The other 5% can just do some homework and get a frontend that suits their needs. and they will surely find one. it's a win-win situation. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it
