Hi all, On Wednesday 19 December 2007 19:17:12 m. allan noah wrote: > On Dec 19, 2007 12:48 PM, Oliver Rauch <Oliver.Rauch at rauch-domain.de> > wrote: > > Hello. > > > > As most of you know I am against the recent development of the SANE1 > > standard. We have an almost complete SANE2 standard and a good working > > SANE1 standard. What is happening in the moment is the destruction of > > all we have. This will end in a chaos. > > > > I don`t understand why nobody wants to start with SANE2. It will take a > > weekend of work to create a SANE2 backend from an existing SANE1 > > backend. Because you don`t want to spend this time you destroy the SANE1 > > standard by creating a chaos. > > > > As you say 95% of the users are happy with SANE1. What you are doing now > > is to make 95% of the users unhappy. > > > > When you will do what you are talking about in the moment then I will > > have to think if I will spend any further time into the SANE project and > > into xsane. I know if I would continue the work for xsane in this case > > then I would have to spend 99% of my programming time to answer > > questions about incompatibilities and problems with the new > > "1.1-standard". > > > > In my opinion it is not fair to create so much problems for SANE1 > > because you don`t like to spend some days to create SANE2 backends from > > the SANE1 backends. > > > > Please think about what you are doing. > > Oliver- The changes we discuss are minimal and are not the default > output format for any backend. As such, they will not break existing > front-ends until the user enables some option. Even then, they will > only break a poorly written frontend. And so, it is my preference to > place these changes right in sane 1.0. > > The idea to place them in sane 1.1 instead was purely a compromise to > make YOU happy. But it seems that you are not interested in a simple > upgrade path to help those remaining 5% of users, but instead want to > tell us all to convert our backends and front-ends to SANE2. > > Please, meet us half-way, and stop using words like 'force' and > 'chaos' in every discussion, and stop insisting that SANE2 is the only > means to extend sane. That tactic has not worked for the past 5 years, > and it does not work now.
I just wanted to let you know that I fully agree with your position Allan. Happy xmas and a happy new year, Ren? -- Ren? Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name