libusb VS libarchive

- https://github.com/libusb/libusb/issues/1468#issuecomment-19...

libusb may interest you.

I've found juce_serialport and libusb but have not used them before.

I've found these two libraries, libusb and juce_serialport, from forms and searching online but I have no experience with manually doing this and the libraries seem to have a lot of extra features for other applications.

Libusb.h is part of https://github.com/libusb/libusb which is a dependency of librtlsdr

then download libusb here https://github.com/libusb/libusb/releases/download/v1.0.26/libusb-1.0.26.tar.bz2

The problem I'm facing now is I want to add libusb as a dependency, but am baffled at how this is meant to work. Is there a tool similar to flatpak-pip-generator that can take a source repository and generate the manifest entry for me? Or is there a set of steps I need to take manually?

29. October 2021 At this point Jia Tan pops up, and the first thing we see from him is an innocuous patch to the xz repository, and while a lot of people believe he started out trying his luck with another library also known as libarchive, this is not the case, I would bet it’s more of a backup looking at the dates, being that there are a few days in between as shown in this commit.

Potentially malicious commit by same author on libarchive: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1609

Full agreement, and with the addition of xpk¹/xfd² as natural extensions to that extensibility too. I see things like xfd supporting xz¹, and I'm simultaneously amazed that it exists and happy that I don't need to do xz {,de}compression on 68k ;)

I guess we have something similar-ish with libarchive⁴, but nobody(including me) has pushed the extra mile to get file dialogs to support random compression and decompression formats.

Beyond OT: I didn't realise how much stuff was still going on at aminet, but I love love LOVE that people are still dropping new car sets for Geoff Crammond's F1GP.

¹ http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xpk_User

² http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xfdmaster

³ http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xfd_lzma.lha

⁴ https://www.libarchive.org/

I don't have a preview channel install handy to check, but apparently they're using libarchive so here's the full list assuming they expose everything it supports:

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/LibarchiveForm...

As announced at the Build conference back in May, this build adds native support for reading additional archive file formats using the libarchive open-source project such as

LibarchiveFormats · libarchive/libarchive Wiki · GitHub

Seems what they're using is BSD-liscensed: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki