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| Posted: 07:11am 16 Jan 2025 |
Geoff, Peter,
When working on 5.09.00 series, and later 6.00.00 and 6.00.01 many times there where people that where confused, because they used (the official available) 5.08.00 as published on Geoff's site. Sometimes about the firmware, sometimes about the user manual.
While progressing from 6.00.01 official release to 6.00.02 and the further future, would it be an idea to add new features to 6.00.02, but continue to update 6.00.01 with bug fixes (as happened with webmite). I refer to fixes that have no user manual impact, real bug fixes.
Maybe to explain with a practical example:
I am working on a PIO UART (3rd and 4th UART in a pico). The code can not be assembled because a bug in the pio assembler. I would rather publish a solution that works with 6.00.01 code, then a solution that is based on 6.00.02 alpha 1/2/3, where people have to search for the firmware until 6.00.02 is released.
In stead of using 6.00.02 alpha 1/2/3, I rather publish a "work around" solution based on 6.00.01, just to avoid the inevitable "where do I find that firmware ?".
What are your thoughts,
Volhout