[sane-devel] Proposal: Change of the backend and model status strings

2003-06-07 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:18:54PM +0200, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > There has been some criticism of the current handling of the :status > keywords in the .desc files. These filse are used to create our lists > of scanners and the output of the scanner search engine. Ok. I wrote some mor

[sane-devel] Proposal: Change of the backend and model status strings

2003-06-07 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 01:46:55AM +0100, david stevenson wrote: [backend status] > Many backends support several scanners, and may be "supported" for most and > under "development" for some. > Is unmaintained and supported enough without the 3rd option? I think so, yes. So a boolean flag

[sane-devel] Proposal: Change of the backend and model status strings

2003-06-07 Thread david stevenson
Here are 2 personal opinions On Friday 06 June 2003 7:18 pm, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:> > There has been some criticism of the current handling of the :status > keywords in the .desc files. These filse are used to create our lists > of scanners and the output of the scanner search engine. > > W

[sane-devel] Proposal: Change of the backend and model status strings

2003-06-06 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, There has been some criticism of the current handling of the :status keywords in the .desc files. These filse are used to create our lists of scanners and the output of the scanner search engine. We currently have two sorts of status indicators: 1) The backend status: alpha, beta or stable 2