TODO: pre-release update

TODO

@@ -19,13 +19,14 @@
    ° Use intall instead of cp?
    ° Merge Makefile and Makefile_atheros*. Use template makefiles,
    autohell, cmake…?
-- Use a string for positioning requests
+- Support string-based positioning requests
-   Instead of a binary packet, use a CSV string containing the request
+   Along with the binary requests, implement a string-based request
-   information. This will allow easy developments of clients in other
+   format. Each packet will contain a CSV string describing the
-   languages.
+   request's information. This will make easier to develop clients in
+   other languages than C and over other protocols than UDP.
 - Mark arguments as const in function headers if needed
-   Mostly done in the Positioner C++ code (should check that),
+   Mostly done in the Positioner C++ code (which should be checked
-   but not constantly in C modules.
+   though), but not constantly in C modules.
    [Done in libowlps & libowlps-client.]
 - Allow to use hostnames instead of IP addresses in all modules
    getaddrinfo(3) (or gethostbyname(3)) should be used when opening
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@
 
 - -o should be optional.
 - Add an option to (not) flush the output file.
-- Refactor:
+- Refactoring:
    ° monitor_requests()
    ° got_request()
 - Use the type of a request to identify it?
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@
 - Known bugs:
    ° On OpenWrt Backfire (10.03), when the program is statically linked,
    using both -D and -A at the same time makes the program to block on
-   the first thread. This is a known issue of OpenWrt:
+   the first thread. This is a known issue of uClibc:
    https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/4809
 - Refactor and review read_packet().
 - Handle better the configuration file reading
@@ -103,7 +104,7 @@
 * Positioner
 
 - Known bugs
-   ° Cannot compute the error (Real) with autocalibration requests.
+   ° Cannot compute the error (Real) for autocalibration requests.
    ° Unit tests are currently unmaintained. Do not try to run them.
 
 - Algorithms
@@ -115,14 +116,13 @@
    ° Handle the power and antenna gain difference between the
    calibration mobile (or pseudo-mobile, for autocalibration) and the
    mobile to position.
-   ° MinMax: use a different step for X, Y and Z?
+   ° MinMax: add option to set the step (and use a different step for X,
+   Y and Z?).
 
 - Autocalibration
    ° Generate reference points in 3D.
-   ° Check what happens with >4 APs, and fix it. We certainly should
+   ° To select the reference APs, we should use the distance along with
-   select APs not only by the angle proximity, but also by the
+   the angle and coverage.
-   distance proximity. Maybe implement three options: angle, distance,
-   and angle + distance.
    ° Handle 2 APs, not only >2 APs.
    ° Find why some CalibrationRequest were not deleted when
    calling Stock::delete_calibration_request() (via
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
 - Optimisation & code improvement
    ° Multithreading:
    .   algorithms (parallelize computation of the different algorithms
-   for the same request) ;
+   for the same request);
    .   and/or requests (parallelize computation of several requests).
    It would be possible (overkill?) to have a group of worker threads
    and a job queue.
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
    instance).
    "C++ en action", p. 275.
    ° Review all the classes to respect principles exposed in "Coder
-   proprement", chapter 6, p. 103: do implement accessors for each
+   proprement", chapter 6, p. 103: do not implement accessors for each
    class attribute, etc.
 
 - Unit tests