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On Wednesday 30 May 2012 17:41:18 Peter Stuge wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > > Fedora rawhide and ArchLinux switched to libusbx and followed |
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> > > suit in our virtual/libusb:1. |
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> > sad that we can't get these things merged. maybe we need to |
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> > convince dsd to hand over the reigns ? |
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> It seems that some don't know that dsd made me co-maintainer in |
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> libusb some months after he created the 1.0.8 release. |
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> I've been working hard on libusb since before 1.0.8. I joined libusb |
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> in 2004 and was already asked by Johannes (the 0.1 author) to be |
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> maintainer in 2007, but declined. |
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> The fork is a long story. I commented in the Arch ticket for their |
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> switch, and the libusbx lead maintainer replied there today. I also |
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> had a chat with Samuli and marienz@g.o on IRC about keeping libusb |
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> as the default provider for virtual/libusb:1. |
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> I'm working on a blog post with what I think are some key facts for |
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> everyone with an interest in the libusb API. The fork is, like the |
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> libusb-1.0.9 release, a month old, and of course there was a sudden |
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> surge in activity when Hans (Fedora libusb package maintainer and |
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> now libusbx maintainer) blogged about the fork, which I wasn't quite |
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> prepared for. Hold on, more information coming shortly. |
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thanks! |
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-mike |