Hello Xiaofan, On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Xiaofan Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Yi-Shin Li <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Thomas Jarosch > > <[email protected]> wrote > >> We are currently discussing the removal of autoconf from libftdi 1.x, > >> so I'm going to delay that part of the patch if you don't mind. > > > > That's okay. Just so you know that I use autoconf together with pbuilder > to > > generate Debian binary packages. > > > > From what I see, libftdi-1.0 has not made into any of the distros. For > example, Debian has only libftdi 0.18 in the unstable branch (sid). > The package name is kind of consusing though since it is named > as libftdi1 (version 0.18-1). > > http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default§ion=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=libftdi > > One thing that I think that may cause further integration of libftdi-1.0 > into distros is that it is supposedly to be total replacement of > libftdi so they can not coexist together. And they actually > depend on different packages (libusb-0.1 and libusb-1.0). > > A initial release of Debian binary package scripts for libftdi-1.0 was submitted. It is as another series of [PATCH]. Maybe it is time to rename the libftdi-1.0 binaries to > libftdi-1.0.{so, dll, a, dll.a} and rename the header file > to libftdi.h, similar to libusb-1.0. In that case, it can > coexist with the current libftdi and the distros can easily > add it in without affecting the original libftdi package. > > This work is important. Though, it has not done yet. Regards, Yishin -- libftdi - see http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi for details. To unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
