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RE: brltty and libusb package ?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 10:11:00 -0000
- Subject: RE: brltty and libusb package ?
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 1 14:42, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> Braille devices are more and more using USB connections. Brltty uses
>> libusb-win32[2] for accessing them. This isn't packaged in cygwin
>> yet. Was it ever considered packaging? (it is GPL/LGPL)
>
> The web page mentions that it's not working for MingW or Cygwin, so
> it seems there's still some porting effort necessary.
It also involves a kernel-mode device driver. Is that suitable for cygwin,
or should cygwin remain an entirely user-space set of apps? Is there any
policy/precedent?
cheers,
DaveK
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