On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> wrote: > "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > >> Julien seems to give no quarter to old Linux, but has a soft spot for >> old Unix :) > > <http://www.sane-project.org/intro.html> > > "... > The current source code is written for UNIX (including GNU/Linux) > ..." > > SANE is historically a UNIX project (note how it says "including"), > and I think it should remain that way. > > Now, there's a difference between actively supporting proprietary > Unices by testing the code on them on a regular basis (something > Henning used to do before release) and actively breaking support for > those by writing Linux-only code (something Alessandro would be more > than happy to do, it seems). > > I think our current practices are inbetween these 2 extremes and it > should remain that way. If something breaks for somebody on a platform > we don't test, at least they'll have a chance to fix it without having > to rewrite large chunks of code, and we can integrate the fixes. > > Also note that we have active OS/2, OS X and Win32 ports, that are > pretty much guaranteed to break if we start going Linux-only, too. >
he never said linux only, he said C99. That should work fine on OSX, not sure about the other two you mentioned. allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
