MPLAB Harmony v3 Project Manifest Feature
The MPLAB® Harmony v3 software framework is distributed as packages on GitHub under the Microchip MPLAB Harmony project. MPLAB Harmony v3 provides several software packages (as GitHub repositories), including device setup repositories (csp, core, etc.), technology-specific repositories (usb, net, wireless, etc.), and reference application (reference_apps) repositories. In addition to the device or technology-specific libraries, these repositories also have application examples.
The release tags identify the MPAB Harmony v3 packages released on GitHub. Microchip regularly updates the packages for new feature additions and issue fixes with a new release. Each new release has a dedicated release tag.
An MPLAB Harmony v3 application is developed using these packages. At a minimum, the application would use csp a device-specific repository. If the application is extensive and has feature-rich functionality, it could use several packages for development.
An application example released in an MPLAB Harmony v3 package is developed on specific released versions of the dependent repositories. For example, the application Getting Started Application on Curiosity PIC32MZ EF 2.0 Development Board was developed using csp v3.8.3, dev_packs v3.8.0 and mhc v3.6.5 packages.
As Microchip provides newer releases, the version number of the repositories used to develop this application are upgraded. There could be situations wherein the user would like to develop the project with the same dependent package version they initially created or received. This document explains how to develop an application with the same dependent packages used when it was created or received.
Note: In this document, the phrase code generation tool refers to any one of the two Microchip code generation tools: MPLAB Harmony Configurator (MHC) and MPLAB Code Configurator (MCC). At the time of publication of this guide, the MPLAB Harmony v3 library code can be generated using either of these tools, however, in the future, only MCC will support MPLAB Harmony v3 code generation.
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