Re: [Libusbx-devel] libusbx-1.0.13 has been released

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Agreed. Please move this to the libusbx mailing list. I couldn't care less about libusbx after the hid fiasco.

-Nathan

On Sep 24, 2012, at 9:42 PM, Jure Menart <jure.menart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'd like to share one unrelated thing: I AM NOT subscribed to the libusbx related mailing lists and I AM NOT using it in my current development.
> 
> I do appreciate the effort of all libusbx developers and I support them in their decisions. I hope once I will contribute something to it... but at this moment in time - I am subscribed to libusb development mailing list. Why I have to read about (IMHO quite childish) problems of a fork of libusb?
> 
> I like how reasonable Pete and Hands are handling this so congratulations to them. But can you please remove 'old non-friendly libusb' thing from your CC's. Each maintainer/developer who will or would like to support libusb and libusbx should follow their thread and complain at their mailing list.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Jure Menart
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg KH" <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Kustaa Nyholm" <Kustaa.Nyholm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: libusb-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, libusbx-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, libusb-win32-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, 24 September, 2012 9:31:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [Libusbx-devel] libusbx-1.0.13 has been released
> 
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:16:25PM +0300, Kustaa Nyholm wrote:
>> On 24.9.2012 21.47, "Greg KH" <greg@xxxxxxxxx> 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
> 
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