On 2012.09.07 11:03, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Looks good, as for the anonymous union versus not, given that you
> clearly dislike it and I can understand why (its ugly), lets just
> go with the rename.

OK. If we think this needs to be discussed further, I don't have a 
problem pushing the MaxPower -> bMaxPower back to 1.0.14.

> We must however then document this in NEWS,

Absolutely!
API breakage, which is really what we're dealing with here, is about as 
big a news as it gets for our users => the last thing we want is to have 
that fly under their radar.

> including documenting the necessary #ifdef for code using it to
> be able to compile with both older and newer versions of libusbx,
> as indicated in another reply to this thread, upstreams will want
> to adjust to the new bMaxpower name, while still keeping there
> code compiling on systems which have an older libusb installed.
>
> And I think we should make this easy by spelling out how they
> can #ifdef things to make this work, rather then make them
> figure that out themselves.

Agreed too. Also, since this is a contention point, I'm gonna wait at 
least a few days before pushing that change, in case there are more 
opinions to be heard.

Regards,

/Pete

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