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Subject: Re: libftdi1-1.1 & libusb 1.0.19 breaks Context::open

From: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: v4hn <me@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:18:27 +0200
Hi v4hn,

On Monday, 1. September 2014 18:50:44 v4hn wrote:
> thank you for the libftdi1 library. It (usually) works really great
> and I use it to control the motors of a mobile robot base via
> https://github.com/jspricke/epos2_motor_controller
> 
> Sadly, this setup stopped working with a more current version of libusb.
> (Also the one present in Ubuntu 14.04)
> My code tells me (after libftdi1's Context::open/2 function failed)
> there are no FTDI-devices connected. (after successfully opening the
> device once...)
> 
> The actual problem I ran into got fixed back in May already.
> (bc3841238bac9cb6955848fd661bbf19a5ed42c6) However, there has been no new
> release since then.
> 
> This issue breaks Context::open and libftdipp1 is at the moment pretty
> much unusable without both Jochen's package-config patch (the library was
> misspelled) and the commit I referenced. It would be great to see these
> fixes reviewed/released in the near future!

given the nature of this problem, we should have a release more or less 
soonish. I can't make any promises, but the end of September sounds like an 
achievable date.

Cheers,
Thomas

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