[BFR] BFR Progress is being made!

[Joel B. <jj...@co...>]

BACneteers,


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  very distant past!

  This has been a pretty quiet project for a long time, and you may
  not have been notified via some SourceForge mechanism that there is new
  activity.  If you are no longer interested in the project, please accept
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The home page of the project is now synchronized with the documentation which is moving to Sphinx, and also part of the repository.  I also enabled Trac support, so Trac tickets can be used for bugs and enhancement requests and the wiki can be used as well (but I expect that the wiki won't be used much).

The original "big pile of code" directory in the CVS repository has been split into three pieces in the new subversion trunk; the BACnet/ directory is just the code for the stack, the MinML/ directory contains the XML parsing code, and the BFR/ contains the rest.  Some additional files have been added to the BFR directory which hold the "factory" functions which used to be mixed in with the BACnet code, so it's shuffling beans under the shells than anything new.

The test/ contains some trivial configuration files, duplicates of ones in the old Testing/ directory, now a subdirectory of tags/0.2/ which wasn't part of the old CVS repository.  I'm expecting to turn these into tutorial samples.  Now that the XML processing has been split from the BACnet library it should be much easier to build specialized applications that can fit in embedded devices, and this will be part of the tutorial as well.

I would appreciate it if you could check out the trunk and let me know what you think.  Again, if you are no longer interested, please accept my apologies and disregard this message.


Joel