From: brian g. <bg...@us...> - 2002-12-04 19:15:20
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hi, We've released Player 1.3.1, and you can get it from the usual place: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42445 Please read the release notes; I've appended them below, and they're also linked off the download page. Stage 1.3.1 is coming soon, but as the release notes say, Player 1.3.x and Stage 1.3.x are interoperable. This means that you can, for example, use Player 1.3.1 with Stage 1.3. Enjoy, and *please* use the SourceForge bug tracker to report problems: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=42445&atid=433164 - your friendly neighborhood Player/Stage developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Release Name: 1.3.1 Notes: This release fixes several annoying bugs, and adds a couple of new things. Concerning versions: we're adopting a policy maintaining compatibility between versions of Player and Stage that only differ by a micro version. That is, Player 1.3.x will work with Stage 1.3.x (including 1.3) and with 1.3.x client programs (including 1.3). To do this, we keep the Player/Stage memory interface and the Player/client socket interface unchanged. However, there is a slight change to Player's external interface with 1.3.1, to do with wifi devices, but I doubt that anyone was using that interface anyway. Player highlights: * udpbroadcast driver (comms interface) is now working properly, including handling lots of messages and timestamping. * C++ comms proxy is now working properly, including queueing multiple messages, with timestamps * Cross-compiling support is more general, using the standard --host and --build arguments to configure. Check the FAQ for detailed instructions. * The Player manual no longer says DRAFT all over it * There are two new interfaces, each supported by one driver: waveform (for raw digital data, such as sound) and localization (for probabilistic localization). These are both experimental, but please play with them. Note that you have to explicitly enable their inclusion via configure. * The bug in the installed headers is fixed, making it much easier to build C and C++ client programs. * The distro tarball is now called 'player-src-', so that it won't try to install over the source tree in the case that you (for some strange reason) unpacked and built it in your home directory. * The wifi interface has changed slightly, to accomodate perceived link information from multiple hosts. The C++ client support likely doesn't work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |