On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 25.05.2012 14:56, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: >> Hi got this feature request: >> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29999 >> >> - fedora ditched the libusb usage in favour of the libusbx project. >> >> http://www.libusbx.org >> >> Shall we move to this too? > > Questions not answered in the bug report: > 1) What is an actual issue solved by libusbx that is present in libusb? > (by Allan) > 2) Is it a drop-in replacement that is API-compatible or (better) > ABI-compatible. > > ad 1) I guess there are such issues, otherwise the libusbx people > wouldn't have been angry enough to make a fork. This point requires > research.
>From what I gathered, the difference is currently minimal as the libusb maintainer backported most of the commits from libusbx. I assume this can not go on forever though... > ad 2) If it is ABI-compatible, there is no harm in switching right now, > as libusbx = libusb-1 + active development + more bugfixes. If it is > only API-compatible or partially incompatible, we would need a strong > reason to actually switch. It was advertised as a drop in replacement, I assumed this means ABI compatible, but this we must check. -t
