[Pkg-electronics-devel] Group for IO-cards

[Wesley J. Landaker]

On Thursday, 21 February 2008, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 February 2008 23:24:12 Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> > On Monday 18 February 2008 12:14:31 Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote:
> > >     I was wondering if I should make a group called comedi for the
> > > comedi library or if it is sensible to make some general IO-card group?
> >
> > I don't know of any other program in Debian that would logically share a
> > group, so it's probably safe to use a group just for comedi.
> >
> > I'd might using "comedi-users", "comedidev", or "libcomedi" or something
> > like that as the group name, as opposed to just "comedi", just to reduce
> > the chance of a conflict with a local group.
>
> Thanks Wesley. I will use the "comedidev" group name. But still I find
> the "iocard" group name preferable because I think you either give a user
> access to all digital aqusition cards or none and some are driven by other
> drivers than comedi.

Either "comedidev" or "iocard" seem reasonable to me, so I guess go 
with "iocard" if you feel strongly that it's better.

As an aside, do you know of any other free software iocard 
drivers/libraries/etc? Besides comedi, the only ones I've ever encountered 
were proprietary.

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Wesley J. Landaker <wjlanda at sandia.gov>
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