On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:57:51 -0500 "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Frankly, these changes are quite small, not even a new function call, > but if the hang-up is purely a philosophical one around the word > 'standard', then what about SANE1.1? Then every packager/frontend > author would have to compile against the new version, and we might > have some systems that continue to ship both versions (even though > they would be identical for most backends). I mostly agree with you, but I want to make a strong point about the importance that current frontends should be able to work unaffected by those small changes we'd like introduce. I really think we can achieve that. Either by checking that the frontends are correctly written or by a mechanism that prevents those new features to be exposed by unaware frontends (if it is dangerous to do so) or by something else. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it