ETAs for libusbx operability and first release?

[Vitali Lovich]

All this is just speculation.  I'm not interested in these kinds of debates until we actually encounter this situation.  At the moment, there is no planned breakages & nothing proposed that would do so. 
Let's focus on other work & revive this discussion when there's actually something to talk about.

-Vitali

On Jan 30, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

>>>> For instance, if you want a hotplug proposal right after the 1.0.9 release,
>>> 
>>> I'd say hotplug is something for v2.
>> 
>> I must say that I don't really like the idea of a v2, what I would like
>> to see is 1.0.x and master git branches, with everything going to master
>> first, with aggressive cherry picking to 1.0.x for fixes, and safe features.
> 
> What is the difference, other than naming?
> 
>> I don't think ABI / API breakage is soemthing we should think to lightly
>> about. How long has it been since we moved from 0.1 to 1, and how many
>> apps are still using 0.1 ? For example libgphoto2, one of our major
>> users has only moved to libusb1 very recently!
> 
> Funny, I used a Linux libc1 system today.  Old stuff doesn't die.
> 
> I don't see how we can do hotplug without breaking the API, since
> any device can appear, disappear and reappear at any time, while
> in the 1.0 API a device can only ever disappear and that's a hard
> error then.  Even if you manage to keep the same function calls
> the semantics of the API will change too much, in my estimation.
> 
> But maybe it works well enough in practice.  Who knows, without
> any concrete proposal.
> 
>> I'm not against an ABI breaking v2 if we have too, but I've the feeling
>> people are thinking much to lightly about this. If reasonably possible
>> we should try to add something like hotplug to the existing v1 libusb.
> 
> I'm still not convinced it is a good idea at all to keep the libusb
> version number when we aren't compatible to libusb anymore.
> 
> 
> Segher
> 
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