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

[Spiro T. <an-...@sp...>]

Hello,

* On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 08:39:33AM +0800 Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2007 12:23 AM, Spiro Trikaliotis
> <an-...@sp...> wrote:

> > 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.

Oh... It seems I totally missed that OpenUSB wants to REPLACE libusb. I
had the impression that it is just another layer on top of libusb.

 
> One more thing, OpenUSB is backed by SUN, a corporration. This
> can be a good (or not so good) depending on your interpretation.

The only positive aspect I can think of: SUN might want to afford the
$$$ needed to sign the Windows driver. ;)

 
> 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.

The Windows API is there, they are free to use that. (just kidding)

Regards,
   Spiro.

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