[pm-h] Perl libusb interface

[G. Wade Johnson]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:31:02 -0600 (CST)
Paul Archer <tigger at io.com> wrote:

> Sounds like a good idea to me!
> 
> Paul
> 
> PS How do you write a test suite for something like that?

It's pretty hard to write a generic test suite for a piece of hardware that
someone else doesn't have. One thing that would be possible is to build a
replacement for the libusb library that you use during testing to verify that
your interface with the library works.

The rest of what the Perl module does is setting up and tearing down calls to
the library.

G. Wade

> 
> 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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