ETAs for libusbx operability and first release?

[Vitali Lovich]

On Jan 31, 2012, at 8:20 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> Talk about future directions for libusbx is very much on-topic
> and not premature at all.  As long as we keep it hand-wavy and
> lacking details :-)
Except it's not.  It's future directions for libusbx given some hypothetical conditions that aren't even on the horizon, which in my mind is the equivalent of mental masturbation.  I'm not knocking it - it's great fun like all masturbation, just trying to point out that it's not going to result in any particularly fruitful decisions or consensus, especially since by the time this actually requires a decision we'll be debating the direction anew & coming up with the decisions that make sense according to the realities of events, not using speculation based on hypotheticals from a long time ago (at least I would hope that's the case).

-Vitali