[fprint] New subproject: fpusb

[Andrei Tchijov]

Sounds quite reasonable.

What about win32-libusb folks?  Are they "on-board" with this new  
development?

On Jan 2, 2008, at 07:52 , Daniel Drake wrote:

> Andrei Tchijov wrote:
>> I think in a long run this is really good news.
>> Now, what are your thoughts on interoperability of "old" libusb and  
>> "new" one?  Will you try to have some sort of interoperability or  
>> are you planing to have 'clean slate' implementation (as far as I  
>> remember, fpusb was not very similar to libusb)?
>
> It will be a new API, new library filename, new header filename,  
> etc. It will be possible to install libusb-1.0 and libusb-0.1  
> alongside each other.
>
> I will also develop a "libusb01compat" package, which will provide  
> the libusb-0.1 header file, library with same name, etc, but  
> internally it will just translate libusb-0.1 calls into their 1.0  
> equivalents.
>
> Daniel