On Wednesday 06 Apr 2016 08:26:46 Johan Ström wrote:
> On 03/04/16 22:32, Andy Carter wrote:
> > On Friday 18 Mar 2016 21:49:49 Johan Ström wrote:
> >> I've patched OWNet.pm in master now, to not send a null-terminated
> >> payload.
> > 
> > Sorry to come back to this one but I wonder if I could suggest/request a
> > human readable version no. or date stamp in OWNet.pm, perhaps even a
> > comment to use with 2.9p5 and later
> > 
> > At present it is difficult for many to see the slight differences between
> > versions - and quite important as there seem to be many distros including
> > older versions of owfs that may require current OWNet.pm
> 
> This information is present in the git log, and more importantly, the
> release notes when we do the next release. Then users at least can see
> "oh this new version has this fixed, i should use that". Just picking
> out random files from a newer version is generally not recommended, and
> in this case possibly not even working (since the protocol changed).
> 
> If every single bug was commented in the code, it would become a lot of
> comments.. :)

Of course, I do agree and building master or next release is the proper answer 
- it's relatively easy to do even for novices 
 
> The fact that a lot of distros lags behind is another problem though..

debian stable particularly in my case which many use with perl based fhem :/

I have posted solutions to my particular problem in a couple of places  - and 
there is this list thread as reference too so searches should find something.

Thanks

Andy

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