Add info to README about libusb 0.1 vs 1.0 and libusb-compat #120
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I wanted those two commits squashed in the pull request. Apparently I still haven't figured out how to do that... |
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Note that Debian decided NOT to go with libusb-compat, despite wanting to drop libusb-0.1 it's still available as well as libusb-1.0. The reasoning was that the new compat layer was very buggy when introduced so not including it was a big incentive for people to migrate to 1.0 |
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Distros with recent versions of libusb (1.x) need to install libusb-compat to provide the legacy (0.1) API expected by mspdebug. After I figured out that libusb-compat was needed, I realized that was what was meant by the mention of libusb-compact on Arch systems (the typo fooled me the first time I read it). Hopefully it's clearer now.