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From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To: Bruce Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net>
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Subject: Re: Ongoing Bluetooth work; Linux-like APIs?
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* Bruce Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> [090120 05:21] wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I am pleased to see all the hard work going in to maintaining the 
> FreeBSD Bluetooth support...
> 
> I wonder though if anyone has considered implementing the Linux APIs ?
> 
> It's kinda difficult to build applications with what we currently have 
> in FreeBSD -- a whole host of higher level language bindings have popped 
> up. Whilst they've done work on making sure it works on Windows with all 
> the stacks they have there, I wonder if FreeBSD's being different from 
> Linux is doing us any good here.
> 
> Just a suggestion... as it is, I've had to side-step FreeBSD for the 
> time being for what I am cooking at the moment :-(
> 
> cheers
> BMS

That would be good.  Please ping about it if you don't see it within
a few weeks.

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- Alfred Perlstein