On 2012.04.23 18:31, Garret Kelly wrote: > I'll agree with you that end-users and developers may prefer a fork of > a given project, but many modern distributions offer both sides of a > forked package, and even multiple versions of the forked packages in > the case of the JRE. Additionally,_because_ developers and end-users > have their own preferences (and because there are packages from > thousands of developers on a single system) a distro must be able to > provide, in coexistence, the preferred libraries of each user and > developer on the system.
I'd agree with you there, if our fork was prompted by the reasons most forks exist (differences with regards to features to be provided), with both projects expected to coexist more or less peacefully. However, the prime reason we forked is because, under Peter's sole guidance, we very much think libusb is not going anywhere, especially as regulars of this list should already have seen signs of the project's slow death. Therefore we strongly believe that anybody who still uses libusb at this stage, and who value their time, should switch to libusbx, not as a matter of "libusbx is better in terms of features" (which we believe it is), but rather as a matter of "choosing libusb is akin to writing a suicide note for your application". As such, it doesn't boil down to a matter of user's preference, a la KDE vs Gnome, but rather a matter of preventing users from paying the price of choosing a dead-end project. Also, you should realize that there's a very good reason the subject of this thread starts with "libusb is dead". This line is hardly intended as a joke. Now, if you haven't followed the discussions on libusb-devel, because it is fairly hostile, that's a message that will be very difficult to convey. We do hope however that 250 commits and 2 years without a release, with 3/4th of this time under Peter's guidance, should tell you that something is really not quite right as far as libusb is concerned, and that, if you value your time, and there exists a competing project, you should steer away from using libusb altogether. Regards, /Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ libusbx-devel mailing list libusbx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libusbx-devel
