piface libraries

[elvisimprsntr]

I noticed the latest SD card image from the RPi foundation now includes the base piface libraries. http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

Does this adversely affect your gem?

2013-09-25:

• Update Scratch image for further performance improvements
• Include Oracle JDK
• At least a 4GiB SD card is now required (see above)
• Include PyPy 2.1
• Include base piface packages
• Update raspi-config to include bugfix for inheriting language settings from NOOBS 2013-09-10:
• Updated to current top of tree firmware
• Update squeak-vm, including fastblit optimised for the Raspbery Pi
• Include Sonic Pi and a fixed jackd2 package
• Support boot to Scratch
• Inherit keyboard and language settings from NOOBS

[blakejakopovic]

I don't have a spare RPi to test it on, but I don't believe so - since I use a modified version of the C library and reference it directly.

The PiFace packages seem to focus on Python support, and I'm not sure if RPi images include the C library as well.

I took a look at the commits to the PiFace C library over the last 6 months (since the PiFace gem's last commit), and there has been a lot of code clean up - but I didn't see any significant changes.

The key commits include (basically just adding code tests, and reorganisation) https://github.com/thomasmacpherson/piface/commit/d3267acc3d9f366c94c99cdad306b9d00cc434e8 https://github.com/thomasmacpherson/piface/commit/e0784aeedfce37a1aefb06927ac88bb3ec1be3c1 https://github.com/thomasmacpherson/piface/commit/a9503a748e63d9767b25ef2de994055a4aa2c7e5

Thanks for letting me know. I'll keep the issue open for a few weeks incase any problems arise.