hotelzululima
commented
10 years ago Hi Randy, I think to avoid unnecessarily creating expectations of new firmware versions for APM 2/8 bit users vs 32 bit users that the name should include some indication of being for 32bit and above architectures (not necessarily pixhawk but pixhawk fire etc) I know the following is cumbersome but it provides a conversation starting point perhaps:
AC-B8-3.2 AC-B32-3.2
Otherwise new and experienced users will have the expectation that the APM 2 in hand will have new features that just are not possible on 8 bits, I know this has been discussed over on drones-discuss already and perhaps as 3.2 seems to be moving to LTS for APM2 its time to do something about same.
regards
HZL
With the APM1/2 coming towards end-of-life at least for the arducopter code (arduplane and ardurover will probably continue longer) we will need to be able to show different versions for different boards. So if an APM2 is connected, the version number will likely remain at AC3.2.x while for the Pixhawk, VRBrain, etc it will continue beyond that.
It's not an urgent problem as AC3.2 isn't even out yet and it won't be a real problem until we hit AC3.3 at which point the versions will diverge.