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authorelie <elie>2002-10-03 06:16:18 +0000
committerelie <elie>2002-10-03 06:16:18 +0000
commita14fddaf68fc8b34173bf159f34a4f0c8a7f2d42 (patch)
tree0afca9c1ff00e49989156fba2d1c1de1c10901cd
parentd8083a84634285773cef365f38e79b23074b5bbd (diff)
downloadpysnmp-a14fddaf68fc8b34173bf159f34a4f0c8a7f2d42.tar.gz
Backward compatibility notes with previous PySNMP revisions added
-rw-r--r--README17
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index 1d30939..500c633 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-SNMP engine for Python, version 3.0.0
--------------------------------------
+SNMP engine for Python, version 3.x
+-----------------------------------
This is a Python implementation of SNMP v.1/v.2c engine. Its general
functionality is to assemble/disassemble SNMP messages from/into
@@ -18,11 +18,8 @@ license. See the LICENSE file for details.
PRECAUTIONS
-----------
-In its 3.x revision, the PySNMP software underwent a major re-write for
-a more accurate, standards compliant and extensible implementation,
-although [hopefully] complete compatibility with all previous PySNMP
-implementations is preserved by means of compatibility sub-packages.
-Please, refer to package documentation for more information.
+For notes on backward compatibility with previous PySNMP revisions, please,
+refer to the COMPATIBILITY file in the PySNMP distribution.
Since MIB support is not integrated into PySNMP package at the moment, this
software accept and report Object IDs only in a non-symbolic (dotted) notation.
@@ -42,13 +39,13 @@ directory in the following way (assuming your Python distribution
resides under /usr/local/lib/python):
$ cd /usr/local/lib/python/site-packages
-$ tar xvf /tmp/pysnmp-3.0.0.tar
-$ echo pysnmp-3.0.0 > pysnmp.pth
+$ tar xvf /tmp/pysnmp-3.0.1.tar
+$ echo pysnmp-3.0.1 > pysnmp.pth
Alternatively, the $PYTHONPATH environment variable can be updated to
point to your PySNMP package location (assuming your UNIX shell is bash):
-export PYTHONPATH=/home/ilya/src/py/pysnmp-3.0.0:$PYTHONPATH
+export PYTHONPATH=/home/ilya/src/py/pysnmp-3.0.1:$PYTHONPATH
The latter trick is also known to work on Windows.