From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 10:27:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA25134 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:27:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA25123 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:26:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id KAA11031 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:26:53 -0800 Received: (from chuck@localhost) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA19322; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:21:45 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:21:45 -0500 Message-Id: <199601311821.NAA19322@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: Paul Traina "Re: Any interest in Quickcam Driver" (Jan 31, 10:17am) from: chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Paul Traina Subject: Re: Any interest in Quickcam Driver Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Jan 31, 10:17am, Paul Traina wrote: } Subject: Re: Any interest in Quickcam Driver } } From: chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu } Subject: Re: Any interest in Quickcam Driver } On Jan 30, 11:31pm, Paul Traina wrote: } } Not to belittle the effort that Paul LaFollette went to to do his port, } I think it would be more benifitial to wait and use the driver Paul Traina } is working on. This way any and all work on Quickcam applications can be } cross developed on FreeBSD and Linux. } } No, that's silly... we should really just grab the best _technical_ driver } from all camps and insure that we all conform to the same driver API. I have } no idea how compatible mine is with the next-generation Linux driver that is } in the works...hell, I didn't even know there _was_ a next generation linux } driver API in the works until 5 minutes ago. } } Don't worry, by the time all of us get our code out the door, I'm sure there } will be a TON of cross-polination. }-- End of excerpt from Paul Traina Agreed! That is actually what I was refering to. I was trying to say that we aught to wait and not just slap in the first driver that comes along. -- Charles Green, PRC Inc. UN*X System Administration 22 Powell Ave. Apt. B UN*X Security & Whitesboro, NY 13492 Programming