Getting SoftwareSerial to work across multiple platforms is a pain. And
atempting to abstract everything from the user turned out to be a source
of many problems. Such as #21 #41 #61 and #65 to name a few...
As a result, the library will move away from handling its own instance
of SoftwareSerial and instead utilize the Stream interface. During
instantiation, user will pass the SWSerial object as a reference which
will be cased to a Stream.
The HW inteface is also updated to utilize references instead of
pointers in order to make the API more streamlined. In the future
passing pointers will be completely deprecated.
Getting
SoftwareSerialto work across multiple platforms is a pain. And atempting to abstract everything from the user turned out to be a source of many problems. Such as #21 #41 #61 and #65 to name a few...As a result, the library will move away from handling its own instance of
SoftwareSerialand instead utilize theStreaminterface. During instantiation, user will pass the SWSerial object as a reference which will be cased to a Stream.The HW inteface is also updated to utilize references instead of pointers in order to make the API more streamlined. In the future passing pointers will be completely deprecated.