Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 14:47:21 -0400 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB HID parser Message-ID: <482F2839.2050008@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <20080515092911.a4ab2e5b.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <482B4C79.3030100@telenix.org> <200805142321.08246.freebsd-usb@dino.sk> <482B8D96.2090409@telenix.org> <20080515092911.a4ab2e5b.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 14 May 2008 21:10:46 -0400 > Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> wrote: > >> After getting no response to any requests for any feedback (like >> alpha test, but about either the protocol features, OR the >> accessibility of the UI) I begin to wonder if there is really any >> interest pool for this. Unless I get at least *some* feedback, I > > Migt I respectfully suggest that no response is because you did the > "show and tell2 backwards? > I think you would have gotten more responses if your mail had included > a link to a place on the net where the tool could be downloaded. > > I'll use myself as an example: for my personal use, I use and test lots > of usb devices on FreeBSD (what can I say - I am a gadget freak), so I > am a bit interested. > But asking for something in a mail is just so 90'es. > I prefer to get my programs, source, and information off the net. > > Just my 20 eurocents (and written with a light twinkle of humor in my > eye). > > >> will make it available, but no port. Geeze, it doesn't need one! If > > Any tool worth anything _deserves_ a port. And it helps with exposure, > as has been said elsewere in this thread. > >> I'm beginning to wonder if I will have even one FreeBSDer who wants >> it, Might get rid of a couple of Linux versions. I hate to admit > > I want it - butt _not_ in my mail, please. Put it up somehwere on the > net and tell us about it. > >> that it works just as well on Windows, darn it. Maybe I could figure >> out how to break it for Windows, what do you say? > > I don't care about windows one way or the other (I use it for work > because Ihave to, not because I like or prefer it). 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). You can pic up a copy at: http://people.freebsd.org/~chuckr/vofr/python/uhidParser-0.2.tbz Lastly, the port. I have, for a great long time, really felt very wrong, that items that needed no adaptation (or 'porting') received ports. Once, I even saw a one liner, truly simple C program get a port, merely to encourage a new programmer (if I remember right, it converted DOS carriage returns to Unix ones), and I just felt that such a truly simple thing was abuse of the port project. That's my own belief. I don't try to push my beliefs upon you, do I? So, please, don't try it push them on me. When I do a port of something, or when I write something that needs some help in compiling for non-techies, then I'll port it, but it's just too simple, it even includes it's own help info, it's just making no real use of the ports tools to make a port of it. I went ahead and gave you a URL, I agree there, but not on the port, not for a thing like this. I can't stop you from porting it, I know that, but I wish you wouldn't. It's just not port material. OK, if you want to continue the argument, do it privately, I won't respond publicly any more about it. No Flamefests, least not because of me. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFILyg5z62J6PPcoOkRAjbSAJ9UUfOXmIVlEbnj5+5mj3BZGzmOIACfQl7y LLOdbAZHi6SQGQLJdqCJdYU= =iIW+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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