Re: [Libusb-devel] Windows binary snapshots file organization

[Pete B. <pb...@gm...>]

OK. I don't have a problem reviewing the snapshot's file organization 
when we do something official (which the current snapshots is not), 
however a couple of things:

1. I don't see the examples ever having higher status than the library 
files.

2. _NOBODY_ seems to have the fingerprint device that the dpfp samples 
target. Providing executables for a device that almost nobody has access 
to is a waste of space IMO.
Unless we ever see requests from people who have the "U.are.U 4000B 
fingerprint scanner", I don't think there's much point in expecting 
people to learn from a sample exe they can't use... The source of that 
sample is useful, especially the threaded one, but the exe, not so much. 
On the other hand, xusb and lsusb will return useful information, 
regardless of the USB device you have access to.

3. I agree that ultimately we should only provide one set of DLLs. 
However, we're still pretty much in experimental stage, with DLL 
interchangeability having only very recently been added. Also, since not 
everybody seems to be convinced about that, I want to confirm that the 
multilib MinGW32 DLLs work as well as the DDK one. As such, and as I 
consider any user of non-official binaries to be OK with being guinea 
pigs, I am planning to continue providing 2 sets of DLLs. Because of 
that, I'll keep the MinGW/MS -> DLL/static_lib approach in my snapshot, 
instead of DLL/static_lib -> MinGW/MS

But I think this discussion makes sense, since I doubt we'll have an 
installer ready by the time we have an official release but we'll need 
something a bit more official than the current non official snapshots.

Might also want to get started on a readme describing the files 
included, that would also provide links to the API, etc, so that we have 
something that looks redistributable when we go official.

It might also make sense to include the source for the examples in what 
we distribute, as the expectation is that people downloading the library 
snapshot are going build a libusb based application, so having some 
sample code included by default could be useful.

Regards,

/Pete