[arch-dev-public] libusbx as replacement for libusb

[Tom Gundersen]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Am 25.05.2012 14:56, schrieb Tobias Powalowski:
>> Hi got this feature request:
>> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29999
>>
>> - fedora ditched the libusb usage in favour of the libusbx project.
>>
>> http://www.libusbx.org
>>
>> Shall we move to this too?
>
> Questions not answered in the bug report:
> 1) What is an actual issue solved by libusbx that is present in libusb?
> (by Allan)
> 2) Is it a drop-in replacement that is API-compatible or (better)
> ABI-compatible.
>
> ad 1) I guess there are such issues, otherwise the libusbx people
> wouldn't have been angry enough to make a fork. This point requires
> research.

>From what I gathered, the difference is currently minimal as the
libusb maintainer backported most of the commits from libusbx. I
assume this can not go on forever though...

> ad 2) If it is ABI-compatible, there is no harm in switching right now,
> as libusbx = libusb-1 + active development + more bugfixes. If it is
> only API-compatible or partially incompatible, we would need a strong
> reason to actually switch.

It was advertised as a drop in replacement, I assumed this means ABI
compatible, but this we must check.

-t