2008/2/13, Charles Lepple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Feb 13, 2008 4:16 PM, Arnaud Quette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > while digging in the fingerprinting world [1], I come across the fpusb > > project, now renamed to libusb 1.0 [2]. > > > > This will open up many interesting software enhancements in the FLOSS > > world, and especially to NUT. > > > Interesting find.
yeah, I thought too ;-) > The main drawback at the moment is the following: > > "Presently, libusb-1.0 only works on Linux, and as an initial > prototype the code is not structured with cross-platform portability > in mind." > > Hopefully that will change. as mentioned in the next paragraph: "Now that the protoype is working, the Linux-specific parts will be abstracted out to make way for porting to other operating systems. I do not recommend porting efforts begin until when this has happened" Also: "The library is working but there are significant remaining items in the TODO file, and the API is a fair distance from stability." So, while it will not impact NUT now, we have a chance to take advantage of the exposed poll fds, and async I/O in the future. Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert R&D - MGE Office Protection Systems - http://www.mgeops.com Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/ Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/ _______________________________________________ Nut-upsdev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev
