New MAJOR release 01.00.00
ATTENTION, this release is NOT FULLY BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE with the previous one! Please check carfully your libraries and applications after upgrading.
Changes since 00.33.00:
- Implement the new exception scheme:
Instead of having many exceptions (which breaks even the abstraction), we now have only two exceptions:
- ChimeraTK::logic_error
- ChimeraTK::runtime_error
All other exceptions are replaces with typedefs to ChimeraTK::runtime_error.
IMPORTANT: Backend developers *must* neccessarily update their code! No backend must throw its own exceptions. Only the two mentioned exceptions may be thrown!
- Introduce the ChimeraTK device descriptor, which replaces the SDM URI (e.g. in the dmap files)
- Allow DMAP file entries without 3rd column (old-style map file name)
- Changed project name into ChimeraTK-DeviceAccess (with compatibility layer)
- Fully changed mtca4u namespace into ChimeraTK (with compatibility layer)
- Integrated the TimeStamp into the VersionNumber object
- Update documentation and examples
- Improved detection of broken backend plugins
- Changes in the logical name mapper backend:
- added support for array constants and variables
- introduce accessor for single bits of a register
- removed two unused features in logical name mapper
- fill the catalogue with extra information from the target devices only when the catalogue is obtained
- Deprecated API:
- added runtime deprecation warning to the RegisterAccessor to prepare its removal
- disabled the MultiplexedDataAccessor class completely so it can be removed soon
- added C++ compiler warnings for deprecated functions in Device
- removed some long-deprecated functions of the backend interface
- no longer use deprecated api in the tests