Comedi-0.7.70

I created a comedi-0.7.70 tarball and put it up on the web site
a few days ago.  It's probably a good time to tell people.

I'm planning to implement a few major changes to Comedi in the
near future, many of which may break binary compatibility.  It
was always my intention to stabilize 0.7 into a 0.8 series, but
that never really happened.  So think of the 0.7.70 release as
being "0.8.0", since it represents 1) there are now two separate
tracks, 0.8 (stable) and 0.9 (unstable), but 2) nothing has
really changed.

There will be additional 0.7.7x releases until 0.10.0 is released.
Users are encouraged to use the 0.7 releases until that time.
The number of drivers available in 0.9 will probably be very
limited until stabilization starts for 0.10.0.

Comedilib will also go through the same changes.

In addition, I'm changing the scope of the Comedi project to
reflect the developments over the last 5 years and the realities
of current data acquisition.  Comedi (the project) has previously
focussed on drivers for plug-in data acquisition cards, e.g., ISA,
PCI, PC-Card, and to a limited extent, USB.  Comedi (the project)
will now focus on data acquisition on Linux _in general_,
whether the actual measurement hardware is connected via PCI,
USB, ethernet, Profibus, or a Windows machine running LabView.
In order to reflect this change, the 0.9 version of comedi (the
package) will be called comedi-modules.  The most significant
changes will occur in Comedilib.



dave...

Received on 2005-04-07Z20:00:21