Hi Pete,
I haven't followed closely on this list. Why do you abandon libusb and fork
another project doing the same thing? There's no maintenance on libusb 1.0?
Thanks,
Lei Chen
On Thu 2012-Apr-19 18:00 PM Pete Batard wrote:
All,
To "celebrate" the 2 year anniversary of the last public release of
libusb, which we think is proof enough that libusb is a dead project,
even more so as far as the general public is concerned, quite a few of
us (Segher, Vitali [before he went to pursue other endeavours], myself,
Hans, Ludovic, Xiaofan, Travis, Michael, Nathan, Kusti, Sean...) have
decided that we cared enough about users to decide to participate in a
fork of libusb.
This fork, called libusbx and crafted as a drop in replacement of the
current libusb, contains pretty much all the improvements and bugfixes
that one would expect to find in the next libusb release... were it ever
to happen, as well as a few other improvements. As you will find out, we
have a clear yet ambitious roadmap [1], with a couple releases under our
belt already (v1.0.9 was released internally 2 weeks ago and v1.0.10,
which can be downloaded from [2], was released this Monday), and we will
do our best to deliver, where libusb failed to.
Therefore, if you are tired of the lack of progress/releases from
libusb, or from having to deal with a project that doesn't seem to go
anywhere, you are very much invited to visit http://libusbx.org, or our
SourceForge page at https://sourceforge.net/projects/libusbx/, to check
libusbx out.
As subscribers of libusb-devel, you are also very much welcome to join
our own mailing list (libusbx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net) by
registering at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libusbx-devel.
With Hans onboard, libusbx is already set to replace libusb on the next
Fedora release, and we expect other distros to follow suit, as we become
more and more relevant to the USB developer community.
Finally, in order to concentrate fully on libusbx, I will add the
following related to my personal involvement with libusb, taking effect
immediately:
- I am ceasing all maintenance& support activities for the Windows
implementation of libusb. With libusbx containing a libusbx-pbatard
branch (though much of its relevant content has already been merged with
mainline libusbx), if you are interested in Windows support and
development, you should head to libusbx, as this is where it's going to
happen.
- I will also cease participating in libusb-devel (i.e. this list),
though I plan to reply to this specific thread if there are questions.
With libusbx as a serious contender, we hope that the deplorable libusb
situation, which prompted this fork, will become a thing of the past and
that regardless of what libusb chooses to do (or not to do), libusbx
will solve all concerns you have with regards to the future of the
library, and in a most effective manner!
Oh, if you are interested in submitting patches, please be aware that
libusbx will soon have Gerrit+Jenkins operational, to greatly enhance
the patch submission process (it's pretty much operational now on a test
branch [3], but still quite a lot of finalization)
Regards,
/Pete
[1] https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/libusbx/roadmap?show=all
[2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/libusbx/files/releases/1.0.10/source/
[3] http://review.libusbx.org:8080/#/q/status:open,n,z
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