Re: Re: Changes to Protocol Docs - a Summary

[Gerry Duprey <gerry@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Howdy,

> Is it necessary to tie developers to a particular format? Saying that
it shouldn't be
> prefixed by "version" or "v" etc is quite
different from specifying exactly how they
> should be formatted.

I tend to agree.  While asking that the version number be "raw"
(I like that
description) makes some sense, beyond that, it really needs to be up to the
developer of the device.  For some simpler devices, the version may be a
simple two byte hex pair (i.e. version=00 to version=ff) as that may be all
there is space for.  Others may want particularly detailed version numbers
(version=1.02.9rc1_a).

I'm not 100% up on the XML file stuff (I've created one, but not looked at
it in a while), but if there is a version in there, I think the only real
requirement we can ask is that the version # in the version= tag matches a
version number in the XML.  Even that may be getting to pointy though.

Gerry
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Gerry Duprey
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