HID re-integration (was: ETAs for libusbx operability and first release?)

[Vitali Lovich]

I'd prefer getting libusbk support before HID support.  I can do the
OSX backend.  There's also HIDAPI which is dual BSD/GPLv3, so we can
look at it for hints about implementation.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Pete Batard <pete at akeo.ie> wrote:
> Oh right, I wanted to reply to this too:
>
> On 2012.01.31 02:11, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>>
>> I would like to have HID back. HIDAPI is good. However, it will probably
>> not have hotplug feature anytime soon. And libusb-1.0 with Windows
>> HID backend should still be good for quite some users. And when it
>> gains hotplug feature, then it has at least one advantage against HIDAPI.
>
>
> I'd like to have it back too, obviously, since my thinking is we're an USB
> library, not an USB-except-HID library. If it's USB, and we can handle it,
> we should try to handle it period. Yeah, I'm aware that HID has been reused
> for PCI, so technically, one could say it's not a subset of USB, but
> seriously, 99% of HID devices out there are USB so I don't think we should
> kid ourselves.
>
>> Nathan was against the idea of an native HID backend for Mac OS X
>> so probably it will not happen for Mac OS X.
>
>
> Now, I would very much prefer to reinstate HID if HID was also going to be
> supported on OS-X, for the reason exposed above. If Nathan doesn't want to
> do it, I don't mind taking a stab at it (especially as it'll give me a good
> excuse to play with OS X development), but I can't vouch for how long it
> might take.
>
>> But I understand that this should be post 1.0.9 release. So we can
>> discuss this after 1.0.9 release.
>
>
> Well, if we are to reinstate HID, I'd like to do so before we add
> libusb-win32/libusbK support, as it'll be easier to do it that way.
>
> I'm relatively confident that I can do both if 1.0.10 happens about 2 months
> after 1.0.9. If it's sooner than that, something may have to be left out.
>
> Regards,
>
> /Pete
>
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