CALL FOR TESTERS: new candidate for libusb port

Peter Pentchev roam at ringlet.net
Mon Feb 28 09:50:51 GMT 2005


On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 04:57:09PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote:
> Hello all, I know that I have been veeeeeeeeery slow in arriving at this
> point. My life has been sucked away recently with a large project at work. Such
> is "open source" ....
> 
> But at long last I have devoted some cycles to updating the libusb port for
> FreeBSD. However, since there has been such a long cycle between updates, and
> many changes to the code I wanted to roll a binary package file and have people
> test out with existing apps before I submitted the PR to have the port files
> themselves changed. 
> 
> The version in the tree right now is 0.1.7. Johannes has released 0.1.10a just
> a few weeks ago and it looks like it has many changes to the BSD code (with
> what looks like some the integration of some patches which previously were
> applied by the port itself).
> 
> So, for those who enjoy libusb on a daily basis like me, can you please fetch
> the following:
> 
>   http://www.reynoldsnet.org/libusb-0.1.10a.tbz

Wouldn't it be better if you provided a patch to the port as well, so
people can build it on other releases of FreeBSD, e.g. 4.x? :)

G'luck,
Peter

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