[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: usb-0.1

[Bas van Dijk]

Hello,

I would like to announce the release of usb-0.1, a Haskell library for
communicating with USB devices from userspace.

usb is implemented as a high-level wrapper around Maurício C. Antunes'
bindings-libusb which is a binding to the C library: libusb-1.* (
http://libusb.org ).

All functionality from libusb is provided except for asynchronous IO.
I'm still thinking about if and how I should add that.

As usual, install usb using cabal:

> cabal install usb

Or download and install it manually from hackage:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/usb-0.1

Or get the development source using darcs:

darcs get http://code.haskell.org/~basvandijk/code/usb

Comments and patches are highly welcome.

Note that this is the first release, so expect API changes in the future.

Note that my brother uploaded 'usb-id-database' to hackage. A small
library for associating usb identifiers like vendor, product, class,
subclass or prototcol identifiers with their respective names and vice
versa:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/usb-id-database

This can be helpful when trying to find the right device to operate.

In a short while, the package 'ls-usb' will be released. This is a
simple program for showing all the usb devices currently attached to
your system. It's a nice demonstration on how to use the library.

regards,

Bas