Re: [Libusb-win32-devel] libusb-win32 and OpenUsb

[Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...>]

On Nov 11, 2007 12:23 AM, Spiro Trikaliotis
<an-...@sp...> wrote:
> > http://openusb.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > OpenUSB currently only works under Solaris and Linux. But they
> > would like to extend the support to Mac OS X, Win32 and BSDs.
>
> I failed to see the advantage of using OpenUSB. Can you please elaborate
> why one should want this?
>

OpenUSB is supposed to be based on the libusb 1.0 API and has the
aim to be thread safe and support isochronous transfer (libusb-win32
already support iso transfer). It also has a compatibility layer so
that libusb-0.1 based program will still run.

I am not too much into the technical details of OpenUSB. I just
think it would be nice for libusb-win32 to be in-sync to l with
OpenUSB which is a fork of libusb 1.0 (libusb 1.0 is kind of dormant
now).

One more thing, OpenUSB is backed by SUN, a corporration. This
can be a good (or not so good) depending on your interpretation.
For me I think so far it is positive. OpenUSB is still in the development
stage but the API, the frontend and Solaris/Linux backend are almost
finished.

To make OpenUSB cross-platform, Win32 is important. So I think if
SUN really persists, they will come out a Win32 port. Then it
might not be a good idea to have two incompatible API for
Windows.

Xiaofan
http://mcuee.blogspot.com