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[Xiaofan Chen]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Pete Batard <pete at akeo.ie> wrote:
> On 2012.04.12 05:32, Michael Plante wrote:
>>>> 2. With regards to the opposite (libusb patches ->  libusbx), it's
>>>> highly unlikely that contributors will waste their time submitting
>>>> patches to both projects,
>>
>> Counterexample:  Hans already has been doing exactly that.
>
> Except this occurred when Hans thought libusbx was dead, since Segher was
> MIA. As long as libusbx is moving, I very much doubt that Hans will spend
> much time feeding back patches to libusb. Bad counterexample.
>
> Xiaofan would have been a better example, as he's been feeding items back
> and forth, and he's probably going to continue to do so. Just like yourself,
> I wish he would pick a side and drop the other, because I'm genuinely
> concerned about how much someone who still sees libusb as having a future is
> going to invest in libusbx, but that's not something I can enforce. But as
> long as his mediating activities don't negatively impact on libusbx (i.e.
> he's not going to butt in about making it easier for the *SPECIAL CASE* of
> easing up the production of patches that apply to both projects), I'm not
> going to have much of a problem with it.
>

I already picked my side to go with libusbx. In fact,
I actually proposed the fork long ago but many people
including Pete did not agree with me.

On the other hand, same as Michael, right now libusbx has
not attracted enough existing libusb-1.0 users, so it is good to
have some feed from libusb on that front.

And Peter is still doing some good job in maintaining the libusb
git codes (say OpenBSD fix which Pete may not fix any time
soon). So I do not see a problem to feed both side about
changes which can be integrated to both side (libusbx branding
obviouslycan not feed back to libusb-1.0).

Regarding how to attract the users, my original idea is to
announce the fork after 1.0.9 release and reuse libusb
mailing list. It might be a bit "cruel" and "rude" but
take note Openusb people is also using libusb mailing list
even though it is a fork of the very original libusb-1.0
(not Daniel Drake's fsusb turned libusb-1.0). On the other
hand, I think Pete and others here will not agree with me
and would not announce the fork after a nice release (1.0.10)
and would not want to reuse libusb mailing list. That of course
has its own good point as well so I respect the decision.


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Xiaofan