2012/6/27 Tormod Volden <lists.tor...@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Wander Lairson Costa wrote:
>> Well, at worst, libusbhost would be another backend, based on the
>> libusb backend. Currently, due to my lack of free time, I am not
>> working on PyUSB (except by supporting mailing list, merging patches
>> and fixing simple bug fixes). If you provide the patch, I can merge it
>> in the current code (after a review, of course) , or if you are not
>> going to do that, you can create a new ticket for it, and at the right
>> time I make the implementation.
>
> Hi Wander,
>
> Incidentally, if you are not working so much on pyusb for the time
> being, maybe you can tag a 1.0-alpha3 release soon since there are a
> number of fixes accumulated since 1.0-alpha2?
>

I could not remember right now any critical fixes since alpha 2, but
if there is one that is heavily affecting you, I can tag the release
with no problem.

> Is there something in particular missing for a 1.0 release that the
> community can help out with? I checked Trac
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/pyusb/report/1 but could not find any
> obvious blockers.
>

Well, OpenUSB support is not ready (but since OpenUSB is not an
widespread library, it is not a showstopper for 1.0 release),
isochronous transfers (for libusb(x) 1.0 and libusb-win32) and I
didn't decide if libusbk will be in 1.0 or delayed to after stable
release. We also need better error checking (some errors are reported
in a too low level way in my opinion) and guarantee it works fine in
all Python version >= 2.4 (including Python 3). That's is what I
remember by now. The fact that these stuff it not in the tracker is a
completely lack of care of mine.

> Releases attract users, developers and hopefully contributors :) Of
> course it must be ready for consumption to avoid a heavy support
> burden.
>

I agree.

As a final word, if someone is willing to keep going with PyUSB
development I am more than happy to add him/her as a project admin. I
cannot help with coding right now, but I can help by directing what
needs to done and, may be, how I imagine things should be done.


-- 
Best Regards,
Wander Lairson Costa

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