Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 17:40:48 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> Cc: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB HID parser Message-ID: <20080518074048.GC1469@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <482F2839.2050008@telenix.org> References: <482B4C79.3030100@telenix.org> <200805142321.08246.freebsd-usb@dino.sk> <482B8D96.2090409@telenix.org> <20080515092911.a4ab2e5b.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <482F2839.2050008@telenix.org>
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--h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2008-May-17 14:47:21 -0400, Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> wrote: >OK, let me cover all the suggestions. First, the name, fine, I renamed it= to >uhidParser, and the current version is 0.2 (will hit 1.0 if I ever get any >feedback, else it's stay where it is). OK. How do you drive it? What do you need (other than Python) to use it? There's an internal reference to krepdump.ko but I can't quickly find that. >Lastly, the port. I have, for a great long time, really felt very wrong, = that >items that needed no adaptation (or 'porting') received ports. The other thing that the ports infrastructure gives me is a record of what version(s) of what software I have installed and what other software requires or is required by that software. This means that I can go to a random port, type "make install" and have the system automagically install any dependencies. >I can't stop you from porting it, I know that, but I wish you wouldn't. I= t's >just not port material. Your tarball doesn't tell me what other tools I need to install to make the contents of your tarball do something. Hopefully, a port would. --=20 Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkgv3YAACgkQ/opHv/APuIfSSwCgk0zKCg+qsfW1C2EgeIovNlI2 B/kAn1JhpjLPn0cq7lObpaOHarvnJJ5N =hBkm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF--
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