On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Bill Ockert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually they have said they will do just that. Quoting from the Flex-5000
Owners Manual Version 1.10.3, caption under Table 4 on Page 9 "Table 4 above
shows the FlexWire connector pin-out. Complete specifications and the
programming interface will be published to allow home brew and third party
add-on products."
What's referred to here is the API, the model of the device that is
presented to external applications. That *will* be public. What won't be
publicized are the details of the implementation, even though they are
visible in the source code. It's not that the internal details are secret.
It's that they are and will be mutable without notice, where the API is
stable.
It's the internals that Jim was referring to as not public, I believe. A lot
of the point of the public API is to have a (public) structure that external
applications can rely on, while keeping the low-level (private)
implementation flexible.
73
Frank
AB2KT
Thank you Frank.
A published API is precisely the point, it gives a fixed location for an add
on into PowerSDR as opposed to a more arbitrary point that someone reverse
engineering might pick.
It is also only ½ of what is stated in the quote from the manual. Complete
specifications appears from context to imply that in part some of the I2C
interface issues that Jim raised in his post back to me, I2C format, address
style, etc might be addressed?
Back to my original question. When *will* the complete specification and
programming interface (API) be published?
Thanks!!
73 de Bill WB0VHW
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