Transition to the 2.0 series:

- New implementation only supports Python 2.2+, backwards compatibility
  should be maintained almost everywhere.
  The OS handles (like the hComPort or fd attribute) were prefixed with an
  underscore. The different names stay, as anyone that uses one of these
  has to write platform specific code anyway.
- Common base class serialutil.SerialBase for all implementations.
- PARITY_NONE, PARITY_EVEN, PARITY_ODD constants changed and all these
  constants moved to serialutil.py (still available as serial.PARITY_NONE
  etc. and they should be used that way)
- Added serial.PARITY_NAMES (implemented in serialutil.PARITY_NAMES).
  This dictionary can be used to convert parity constants to meaningful
  strings.
- Each Serial class and instance has a list of supported values:
    BAUDRATES, BYTESIZES, PARITIES, STOPBITS
  (i.e. serial.Serial.BAUDRATES or s = serial.Serial; s.BAUDRATES)
  these values can be used to fill in value sin GUI dialogs etc.
- Creating a Serial() object without port spec returns an unconfigured,
  closed port. Useful if a GUI dialog should take a port and configure
  it.
- New methods for serial.Serial instances: open(), isOpen()
- A port can be opened and closed as many times as desired.
- Instances of serial.Serial have baudrate, bytesize, timeout etc.
  attributes implemented as properties, all can be set while the port is
  opened. It will then be reconfigured.
- Improved __doc__'s.
- New test_advanced.py for the property setting/getting testing.
- Small bugfix on posix with get* methods (return value should be true a
  boolean).
- added a __repr__ that returns a meaningful string will all the serial
  setting, easy for debugging.
- The serialposix module does not throw an exception on unsupported
  platforms, the message is still printed. The idea that it may still
  work even if the platform itself s not known, it simply tries to do
  the posix stuff anyway (It's likely that opening ports by number
  fails, but by name it should work).

1 files changed, 58 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/pyserial/CHANGES.txt b/pyserial/CHANGES.txt
index fcdf51b..7e53cda 100644
--- a/pyserial/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/pyserial/CHANGES.txt
@@ -40,16 +40,17 @@ Version 1.15    04 Jun 2002
         - compatibility to win9x improved
 
 Version 1.16    02 Jul 2002
-    added implementation of RI and corrected RTS/CTS on Win32
+    Added implementation of RI and corrected RTS/CTS on Win32
 
 Version 1.17    03 Jul 2002
-    silly mix of two versions in win32 code corrected
+    Silly mix of two versions in win32 code corrected
 
 Version 1.18    06 Dec 2002
     Bugfixes (general):
-        - remove the mapping of flush to the destructive flushOutput as this
-          is not the expected behaviour
-        - readline: EOL character for lines can be chosen idea by John Florian
+        - remove the mapping of flush to the destructive flushOutput as
+          this is not the expected behaviour.
+        - readline: EOL character for lines can be chosen idea by 
+          John Florian.
     Bugfixes (posix):
         - cygwin port numbering fixed
         - test each and every constant for it's existence in termios module,
@@ -62,20 +63,64 @@ Version 1.18    06 Dec 2002
 
 Version 1.19    19 Mar 2003
     Bugfixes (posix):
-        - removed dgux entry which actualy had a wrong comment and is probably not in use anywhere
+        - removed dgux entry which actualy had a wrong comment and is
+          probably not in use anywhere.
     Bugfixes (win32):
         - added int() conversion, [Bug 702120]
-        - remove code to set control lines in close methond of win32 version. [Bug 669625]
+        - remove code to set control lines in close methond of win32
+          version. [Bug 669625]
 
 Version 1.20    28 Aug 2003
-    added serial.device() for all platforms
+    Added serial.device() for all platforms
     Bugfixes (win32):
-        - don't recreate opverlaped structures and events on each read/write
-        - don't set unneded event masks
-        - dont use DOS device names for ports > 9
-        - remove send timeout (its not used in the linux impl. anyway)
+        - don't recreate opverlaped structures and events on each
+          read/write.
+        - don't set unneded event masks.
+        - dont use DOS device names for ports > 9.
+        - remove send timeout (its not used in the linux impl. anyway).
 
 
 Version 1.21    30 sep 2003
     Bugfixes (win32):
-        - name for COM10 was not built correctly, found by Norm Davis
+        - name for COM10 was not built correctly, found by Norm Davis.
+    Bugfixes (examples):
+        - small change in miniterm.py that should mage it run on cygwin,
+          [Bug 809904] submitted by Rolf Campbell.
+
+Version 2.0b1    ...
+    Transition to the 2.0 series:
+    - New implementation only supports Python 2.2+, backwards compatibility
+      should be maintained almost everywhere.
+      The OS handles (like the hComPort or fd attribute) were prefixed with an
+      underscore. The different names stay, as anyone that uses one of these
+      has to write platform specific code anyway.
+    - Common base class serialutil.SerialBase for all implementations.
+    - PARITY_NONE, PARITY_EVEN, PARITY_ODD constants changed and all these
+      constants moved to serialutil.py (still available as serial.PARITY_NONE
+      etc. and they should be used that way)
+    - Added serial.PARITY_NAMES (implemented in serialutil.PARITY_NAMES).
+      This dictionary can be used to convert parity constants to meaningful
+      strings.
+    - Each Serial class and instance has a list of supported values:
+        BAUDRATES, BYTESIZES, PARITIES, STOPBITS
+      (i.e. serial.Serial.BAUDRATES or s = serial.Serial; s.BAUDRATES)
+      these values can be used to fill in value sin GUI dialogs etc.
+    - Creating a Serial() object without port spec returns an unconfigured,
+      closed port. Useful if a GUI dialog should take a port and configure
+      it.
+    - New methods for serial.Serial instances: open(), isOpen()
+    - A port can be opened and closed as many times as desired.
+    - Instances of serial.Serial have baudrate, bytesize, timeout etc.
+      attributes implemented as properties, all can be set while the port is
+      opened. It will then be reconfigured.
+    - Improved __doc__'s.
+    - New test_advanced.py for the property setting/getting testing.
+    - Small bugfix on posix with get* methods (return value should be true a
+      boolean).
+    - added a __repr__ that returns a meaningful string will all the serial
+      setting, easy for debugging.
+    - The serialposix module does not throw an exception on unsupported
+      platforms, the message is still printed. The idea that it may still
+      work even if the platform itself s not known, it simply tries to do
+      the posix stuff anyway (It's likely that opening ports by number
+      fails, but by name it should work).