On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 10:59:35AM -0700, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> My day job has me manually creating descriptors for USB devices more often
> than I care to, so I've created a module for auto-generating said
> descriptors. The resulting object tree can then be output as a structure
> suitable for compiling, or assembling, into a device's firmware. Where in the
> namespace hierarchy should I put these objects?
>
> For the moment I'm using USB::Descriptor::Device, USB::Descriptor::Interface
> and so on. Eventually I'll also have USB::HID::Descriptor::Device, etc. But,
> it seems there is no USB namespace in CPAN. I see that packages that
> represent, or interface with, specific devices live under Device::, and
> Device::USB in particular. However, that doesn't seem like a proper home for
> a module that deals with concepts at the specification level, as opposed to
> interacting with a particular connected device. That, and
> Device::USB::Descriptor::Device seems a little silly.
>
> Suggestions? Thoughts? Any problems with me creating a top level USB
> namespace?
I'd have thought that Device::USB::Descriptor would be a good place,
with no need for a further ::Device. Underneath that you could have
things like D::U::Descriptor::HID, D::U::Descriptor::Storage or
whatever.
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