[BRLTTY] make drivers a library?

[Samuel Thibault]

Mario Lang, le Sun 27 Sep 2009 13:16:45 +0200, a écrit :
> > As a result, I yet more and more believe that brltty should export its
> > drivers through a library too, even with an simple interface similar
> > to libbrlapi/libbraille.  Else I fear dispersion of hardware support
> > efforts.
> 
> Well, the situation is already downhill.  AFAIK, HandyTech
> has written its own driver for NVDA.
> So while everything was there already, they rather chose to reinvent the
> wheel.

No, they didn't.

> Same applies for the BC6 series if I am not totally mistaken right now.

Same for this one and the other (FreedomScientific).

What they did is using the COM-based or DLL-based communication mecanism
of their own driver, they didn't re-implement the protocol. The benefit
being that they don't interfere with other users of the braille device.

Samuel