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PySerial installation for Windows updated (#1)
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- Fix: Updated CXXFLAGS_STD to match upstream 1.6 (issue #424) (https://github.com/calvinli)
- Fix: Added support for attiny core's use of chip instead of cpu in submenus (https://github.com/straccio)
- Fix: ARDUINO_VERSION can cope with the longer 1.6.10 version string (issue #444) (https://github.com/sej7278)
- Tweak: Documentation for Windows updated to include installation of PySerial (https://github.com/sovcik)

### 1.5.1 (Debian version: 1.5-3) (2016-02-22)

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On Windows:

You need to install Cygwin and its packages for Make, Perl and the following Serial library
or you can install it using the [pre-built package installer](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial)
You need to install Cygwin and its packages for Make, Perl and the following Serial library.

Assuming you included Python in your Cygwin installation:

1. download PySerial source package from [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial)
2. extract downloaded package running
```tar xvzf dowloaded_package_name.tar.gz```
3. navigate to extracted package folder
4. build and install Python module:

```
python setup.py build
python setup.py install
```

## Usage

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