Release Notes

EDCS SDK Release 4.4.0

July 1, 2011

  1. Introduction
  2. Distribution Packages
  3. Installation
  4. SDK Documentation
  5. Applications
  6. Included Upgrades
  7. Bug Reports and Feedback
  8. Web Pages

Introduction

Thank you for downloading this release of the EDCS Software Development Kit (EDCS SDK). The EDCS SDK is the development environment for creating applications that use the Environmental Data Coding Specification (EDCS). The purpose of the EDCS is to insure that environmental concepts are:

This release has been tested on multiple platforms, such as Linux, Irix, Sun, and Windows 98/Me/NT/2000. For detailed information on platform and compiler versions supported see the Build Kit.

EDCS 4.3 is a superset of EDCS 4.2, just as EDCS 4.2 was a superset of EDCS 4.1 and EDCS 4.1 was a superset of EDCS 4.0. No mapping is needed from EDCS 4.2 to EDCS 4.3, just as no mapping was needed from EDCS 4.1 to EDCS 4.2.

For help, comments, and bug reports please send email to help@sedris.org. If you are an associate, please use se-coders@sedris.org.

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Distribution Packages

This version of the SDK is being made available in multiple distribution formats. In addition to source code, pre-compiled binaries for all supported platforms can be downloaded from the SEDRIS web site (www.sedris.org).

The following matrix table shows the contents of the different packages and the directories you will find in them (note that the links on the column headers take you to the directories, so they may not work depending on your distribution and, as in the case of a source distribution, on whether you have compiled the libraries and/or applications):

Package and Contents bin:

Compiled binaries for applications

docs:

Documentation, including Release Notes and Reference Manual

include:

Header files for applications and libraries

lib:

Compiled binaries for libraries

src:

Source code and headers for libraries and applications

Complete SuiteáSource:
  • Libraries
  • Applications
  • Documentation
  X     X
Complete Suite Binary:
  • Libraries and available extensions
  • Applications
  • Documentation
X X X X  

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Installation

The EDCS SDK is distributed as a GNU-zipped tar file for Unix systems and a Zip file in Win32 systems.

Note: If you have an earlier version of the SDK and you haven't changed its default installation directory, you may want to do it now because this version of the SDK may overwrite it.

To install, extract the contents of the compressed file:

Unix

Use the "tar" and "gzip" commands to extract the contents of the SDK:

gunzip -c sdk_file.tar.gz | tar xf -
using the appropriate filename for "sdk_file.tar.gz".

If you have GNU tar installed, you can use the following command instead:

tar xzf sdk_file.tar.gz

Win32

Use WinZip or other decompression utility to extract the contents of the downloaded file.

If you are installing the EDCS SDK under the SEDRIS SDK, you will need to extract the contents of the file into the "sedris/src/lib" directory of the SEDRIS SDK, so that the extraction process puts all the files in the "sedris/src/lib/edcs" directory.

See the Build Kit page for information on how to compile and link the software, and how to link your applications or libraries against this SDK.

Note that the file name for binary releases includes the OS/System architecture type as part of the name. After extracting the software, users should see a top-level "edcs" directory. Binary releases associated with different OS/architecture can be installed on a common "edcs" directory. This is to allow users who work on several platforms to install all the releases under a common "edcs" directory in a shared network drive. In that case, on each installation, the non-OS-specific files are replaced by the new release and the OS specific libraries and executables are stored under their respective sub-directories under the "lib" and "bin" directories discriminated by their platform/version/architecture combination.

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SDK Documentation

The SDK Documentation is divided into the following areas:

Release Notes (this document)
Describes the capabilities of this release, its contents, and supported platforms and compilers.
Build Kit
Details the build options and procedures for compiling and linking the software.
Fixes And Limitations
Describes the fixes and known limitations of this release.
EDCS Reference Manual
Provides links to detailed documents for the EDCS and mappings from other encodings.
Migration Guide
Provides information to migrate applications from EDCS SDK Release 4.0.x to Release 4.1/4.2.

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Applications

This release includes a sample application that demonstrate the use of the EDCS SDK.

Applications:

Sample EDCS Access
An application that accesses the EDCS API to get some EDCS Classification Codes and EDCS Attribute Codes and displays their information.

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Included Upgrades

An SCR is the means by which users make their requests for EDCS technology changes as either a functional enhancement or a software problem, including EDCS registry submissions. Users can make such requests via the SCR Form Web Site. SEDRIS Associates can review the status of the SCRs at the SEDRIS website while the non-associates can obtain their status by sending a request for information about specific SCRs to se-scrccb@sedris.org.

Please see Fixes and Limitations for detailed information on software fixes and known limitations/defects.

SEDRIS Change Requests (SCRs) addressed None.
New EDCS Classification Codes
New EDCS Attribute Codes
New EDCS Enumerant Codes

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Bug Reports and Feedback

Questions, comments, and bug reports should be sent to help@sedris.org.

If you are an associate, please send email to se-coders@sedris.org.

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Web Pages

These links require Internet access.

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