1.2 Differences between versions 1.2 and 1.3

(Users who are familiar with version 1.2 of libplayerc should read this section; new users may safely ignore it).

The Player server has been substantially re-written to support a more general interface/driver model for devices. A device interface describes the kinds of interactions a device allows, while a device driver handles the low-level hardware interaction. Thus one may use the same interface to control many different pieces of hardware, each of which has a specific driver.

This change has two important consequences for the libplayerc client library:

• Client-side proxies now correspond to server-side interfaces. Thus, for example, a position proxy on the client connects to a position interface on the server.
• Some proxy names have changed to bring them into line with the new server naming conventions.

See the Player User Manual for more details on the new interface/driver model.