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

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

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Pete Batard <pb...@gm...> wrote:
> 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.

Of course that is right. The include file and the libraries are the most
important 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.

I agree the binary of dpfp can be dropped since it is not to be built
under MinGW and MSVC. And we may not want to provide binares
for Cygwin anyway.

> 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

Okay.

> 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.

That is probably the object of this discussion.

> 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.

I agree.

> 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.

Yes. So the source lsusb.c, xusb.c, dpfp.c and dpfp_threaded.c
should be provided.


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