On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:16:25PM +0300, Kustaa Nyholm wrote: > On 24.9.2012 21.47, "Greg KH" <g...@kroah.com> wrote: > > > >And if I'm going to be forced to change my program, and libusbx has now > >shown that they don't care about their public api, well, I might as well > >just rewrite it to remove that dependancy completly, as it's obvious > >they don't know how to treat their users. > > Really Greg, > > I think you are overreacting and talking through your hat. > > If you bothered to check the archives you'd see how much the developers > actually care about their users.
Um, breaking existing applications is not indicative of that, don't you agree? > If you think rewriting to remove that dependency makes more sense > than applying a trivial fix Pete promised to deliver, go ahead, > especially if you think that is what *your* users will want. No one delivered any such "fix", all I got was a bunch of bug reports this morning from the distros saying that usbutils was suddenly broken. That shows that libusbx is really the problem here, and that maybe I shouldn't depend on it anymore. greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
