Re: [sane-devel] Happy new year- time for a sane-backends release!

2023-02-07 Thread m. allan noah
Sounds reasonable, though at the moment I am pretty frustrated with how this backends release went. I know folks worked pretty hard on what we have now (particularly Olaf), but I think I am going to make an executive decision, and rip some of this out. Once I have done this (and cleaned up the

Re: [sane-devel] Happy new year- time for a sane-backends release!

2023-02-07 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, On a slightly different note, perhaps we should consider doing a frontends release soon. Thierry has been working on a GTK3 port of the GUI apps in there which is going to become an issue shortly as some distros drop GTK2. Cheers, Ralph On 2023-02-07 04:48, m. allan noah wrote: This

Re: [sane-devel] Happy new year- time for a sane-backends release!

2023-02-07 Thread Ludwig Jaffe
"This entire thing is a little crazy, because I spent more time fighting with the automation than I would have spent doing an old manual release." Lemma: Things take longer and become buggy if you try to automate them. :-) Thank you for your contributions! Cheers luja On February 7, 2023

Re: [sane-devel] Happy new year- time for a sane-backends release!

2023-02-07 Thread m. allan noah
This entire thing is a little crazy, because I spent more time fighting with the automation than I would have spent doing an old manual release. One of the steps there was simply to edit configure.ac and change the version number a couple of times. Seems easy enough to 'echo $new_version >