Hi Lukas, I think this information is a little too much for the typical Announce email.
This is usually aimed at consumers of project artifacts and they don't really care about the internals. I can add a notice that if someone is interested on this topic to check our documentation or contact us on our list. I did however notice I should add a notice on the changed connection-string and sometimes address string syntax ... should mention that. Chris Am 25.05.20, 10:16 schrieb "Lukas Ott" <[email protected]>: +1 Somewhat I am missing a little bit linkage to mspec-format ("the how we create generated drivers" -> We established the mspec-format as the basis for generating drivers more can be found here: https://plc4x.apache.org/developers/code-gen/protocol/mspec.html . This enables developers to easily develop new drivers.) Additionally off-topic remark: for me personally -> what is needed to transfer the driver generation to other languages (basically what are the steps you are currently working on for the C language and what steps are needed to to bring other language like Python there? (e.g. Step 1: Definition of API, Step 2: Definition of , ...) Thanks Chris for the effort :) + Good job PLC4X Team it is an awesome journey so far. Regards, Lukas Am Mo., 25. Mai 2020 um 09:51 Uhr schrieb Christofer Dutz < [email protected]>: > The Apache PLC4X team is pleased to announce the release of Apache PLC4X > 0.7.0 > > PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable > logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared > API. > This is the last release of PLC4X with the "handwritten" drivers. > This Minor release will thus receive updates and fixes until > most users have switched to 0.7 and above (with generated drivers). > > This is probably the biggest release we had so far. It marks a milestone > in providing > Driver implementations for multiple target languages, as with this release > all > existing drivers have been deleted and replaced by new generated drivers. > We also took the opportunity to fix some of the problems we noticed on the > old drivers. > > However we suggest to update with caution and not instantly go into > production > without previously testing. As with all new things, even if we did a > serious amount > of testing, there might be issues hidden in the details. If you should > find any > regression issues, please report them as we are planning on speeding up > the release- > train significantly with this release. For the time being the 0.6.0 branch > will continue > to be maintained until feedback from the community makes us feel safe with > focusing solely on the new drivers. > > Regards, > The Apache PLC4X team > > [1] http://plc4x.apache.org<http://plc4x.apache.org/> > [2] http://plc4x.apache.org/users/download.html > > > > >
