serialport v1.0.0

Andre Pany andre at s-e-a-p.de
Sun May 13 18:38:10 UTC 2018


On Sunday, 13 May 2018 at 18:05:35 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, May 13, 2018 17:57:56 Andre Pany via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> On Sunday, 6 May 2018 at 22:02:05 UTC, Oleg B wrote:
>> > Stable version of serialport package
>> >
>> > * Blocking `SerialPortBlk` for classic usage
>> >
>> > * Non-blocking `SerialPortNonBlk` and `SerialPortFR` for 
>> > usage in fibers or in vibe-d
>> >
>> > * Variative initialization and configuration
>> >
>> > * Hardware flow control config flag
>> >
>> > Doc: http://serialport.dpldocs.info/v1.0.0/serialport.html
>> > Dub: http://code.dlang.org/packages/serialport
>> > Git: https://github.com/deviator/serialport
>>
>> Thanks for this library. The announcement is at the right time 
>> as I want to write a smart home application to control my 
>> shutters. The application will run on a raspberry pi (ftdi sub 
>> stick).
>
>
> So, now we'll be able to hack your shutters? ;)
>
>> Do you thought about including your library into phobos? A std 
>> library really should contain this functionality.
>
> Really? If the consensus is that it should go in, then okay, 
> but I don't think that I've ever seen a standard library with 
> anything like functionality for talking to serial ports. And 
> what would having it be in Phobos buy you over just grabbing it 
> from code.dlang.org?
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Hopefully not:)

For me it is just a convenience reason. I would not have to 
search dub registry for serial libraries and try them out.
For functionality included in Phobos I know they were reviewed by 
several developers and therefore have high code quality and only 
few bugs.

Kind regards
Andre




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