On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Alessandro Zummo <azummo-lists at towertech.it > wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:38:24 -0400 > "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > We could do that, but then any front-end that uses sane would have to > check > > the backend version number and the params version number. I would be more > > inclined to convert 'last_frame' to 'flags', then you can probably get by > > without changing existing backends (other than a word substitution). > > If we have decided to break for sane 2, it might be worthwhile > to do that in such a way to avoid troubles in the future. but this does not avoid troubles, it just pushes them out to the front-end developer, forcing him to have multiple branches in his code to deal with all the variations. I would much prefer to have the major number of the backend be a contract with the front-end author. If that means we have to leave some unmaintained backends behind, so be it. allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20090620/19480aa0/attachment.htm>
