Integrate libsane and sane into Solaris [PSARC/2008/170 FastTrack timeout 03/11/2008]

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:52:08AM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> This is a tangent discussion, and yes, it should be addressed (but not 
> necessarily here).  All public APIs are supposed to have 64-bit support 
> unless there is some *really* compelling reason why this is not needed.  
> I don't believe that this is the case in the libusb.
> 
> Lacking ARC approval to not ship 64-bit support, I think this project 
> should file a bug against libusb for 64-bit support, and declare that 
> bug as a dependency.

And explain that 64-bit support will be delivered separately.

I think libusb is such a core library that it absolutely should have a
64-bit version.  All core libraries, and most utility libraries should
have 64-bit versions except where <see other posts on this topic in this
thread>.

I too was surprised not to find anything about this in any of the
relevant SAC Best Practices documents.

Nico
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