Future Versions of Sharpcap
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2022 6:23 pm
Hi Robin,
I was just wondering about how future versions of Sharpcap will be handled. Version 4.0 has a lot more capability now than when it first appeared months ago. The nice thing about versions is that they have a known set of capabilities and the documentation can be correlated to a specific version number. As it stands now, there are a number of features in the current version 4.0 of Sharpcap which are not captured in the current 4.0 documentation. This is a problem for new users of Sharpcap in that your code now has capabilities they would not necessarily know about.
I really like the fact that through your efforts, additional capability is being added to Sharpcap on an almost continual basis and I would not want to curtail that, however, it seems like it might be good at some point to say this is the end of version 4.0 and at that point add the additional features which have been incorporated into the code into the current documentation. At that point, then proceed to add features to a version 4.1 or whatever you want to call it, proceed for a time with that version, and then update the documentation again and so on. It seems like this is the way things were done in the past.
The main thing that I am trying to address is that you don't want the code features to outstrip the documentation by an excessive amount or you will be in danger of leaving a lot of users behind. My 2 cents for what it is worth. Thanks as always for you wonderful code!
Best, Bill
I was just wondering about how future versions of Sharpcap will be handled. Version 4.0 has a lot more capability now than when it first appeared months ago. The nice thing about versions is that they have a known set of capabilities and the documentation can be correlated to a specific version number. As it stands now, there are a number of features in the current version 4.0 of Sharpcap which are not captured in the current 4.0 documentation. This is a problem for new users of Sharpcap in that your code now has capabilities they would not necessarily know about.
I really like the fact that through your efforts, additional capability is being added to Sharpcap on an almost continual basis and I would not want to curtail that, however, it seems like it might be good at some point to say this is the end of version 4.0 and at that point add the additional features which have been incorporated into the code into the current documentation. At that point, then proceed to add features to a version 4.1 or whatever you want to call it, proceed for a time with that version, and then update the documentation again and so on. It seems like this is the way things were done in the past.
The main thing that I am trying to address is that you don't want the code features to outstrip the documentation by an excessive amount or you will be in danger of leaving a lot of users behind. My 2 cents for what it is worth. Thanks as always for you wonderful code!
Best, Bill
At some point my feelings of guilt about letting the documentation get out-of-date catch up with me and I do an update.
