Re: [Libusb-devel] Name conflict on "interface" - redux

[Daniel D. <da...@re...>]

El 29/01/10 09:40, Pete Batard escribió:
> Or are we going to just switch to a new API then and break all
> compatibility at once?

I plan to do it all at once, but without breaking any compatibility. The 
new library would be installed alongside the current one without 
conflict. We could even make a libusb-compat-1.0.

> The most annoying part (and the actual issue I was trying to solve with
> this patch) is this also means that, if libusb.h is included before
> windows.h, libusb users will need to manually add an "#undef interface"
> in all their sources, because there is no other way, and, if people
> don't read our docs, we'll get messages asking why they can't build
> their app (we already did actually).

You could add an #error condition in libusb.h explaining the issue and 
pointing to the documentation where it is covered in more detail.

Daniel