[pm-h] Perl libusb interface

[Paul Archer]

Sounds like a good idea to me!

Paul

PS How do you write a test suite for something like that?

6:57pm, G. Wade Johnson wrote:

> I was thinking about it on the way to work this morning and had a somewhat
> different idea. Device::USB seems to be somewhat higher-level than libusb in
> the one method he has implemented.
>
> So, I was thinking we could steal an approach from the Perl XML community. How
> about we build Device::USB::LibUSB that is a relatively thin wrapper over
> libusb. Then, we can implement a higher-level interface in Device::USB.
>
> If another library turns out to be better than libusb, Device::USB could be
> ported to that library instead.
>
> What does everyone think?
>
> G. Wade
>
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:12:26 -0600 (CST)
> Paul Archer <tigger at io.com> wrote:
>
>> 7:09am, G. Wade Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> A few people have expressed interest in picking up next month with the USB
>>> project again. Does anyone else have an opinion?
>>>
>> Well, obviously I'm interested. 8-)
>>
>>
>>> I did a little looking on CPAN and found there is a module called
>>> Device::USB that provides a wrapper around libusb. Unfortunately, it only
>>> provides an function to list devices.
>>>
>>> Would we want to begin building this interface as a group project? If so,
>>> we could contact the author of Device::USB to find out if he would be
>>> willing to turn the module over to us. Otherwise, we can just name it
>>> differently.
>>>
>> I talked to [mumble] about adding to Device::USB. He was all for it, and
>> very enthusiastic. I didn't talk about ownership, though.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
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