Interest in Sane or LibUSB
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Tue Mar 24 20:34:46 UTC 2009
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:30:43PM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Would there be any interest in having Sane or LibUSB in the mingw
> packages? I have specs and patches for both, however the are some caveats:
Yes to both. Hans Niederman (ndim on #fedora-mingw) already took a
look at libusb-win32.
[...]
> libusb-win32 compiles and runs without much modification, however this
> library has a tendency to BSOD Vista machines. Works fine with Windows
> XP. This is also only the 0.1.12 library. The 1.0 library is the current
> release, but since Fedora isn't shipping it and Sane requires 0.1.12 I
> am using it. Any know if Fedora switching to 1.0? Also, the resulting
> .exe files generates an auto-requires of "setupapi.dll" and
> "cfgmgr32.dll" so this is an issue that needs addressing.
BSOD from userspace??
Probably best to file a bug against the native Fedora package if you
want it to be updated.
> As for maintainer-ship, I don't think I would be a good candidate to
> maintain the packages so I'd be looking for someone to take the
> specs/patches.
Well post any specfiles and patches here. If you do want to make a
package then take a look at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW/New_package
Rich.
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