On Jun 15 2013 10:32 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
> John Kasunich wrote:
>>   That was mostly
>> driven by adamant opposition to HAL by certain EMC people.
>> I wanted to make sure that even if HAL didn't wind up in EMC
>> (or it was heavily watered down), the highly modular concept
>> would be preserved elsewhere.  Once HAL caught on as part
>> of EMC2, I no longer needed that backup plan, and the BLOCS
>> Sourceforge project has been sitting in stasis for years.
>>
>> I fully support Michael's "MachineKit" idea.  And I like his name
>> better too.
>>
> I have a customer right now who is a candidate for a standalone HAL.
> Not such a big deal to load an entire LinuxCNC system and just use it
> that way, so it may not need a separate way to build it.  The 
> customer
> has some razor blades on a chain, and these need to move like
> electronic gearing when a part comes down a production line.
> I mentioned to him that this might be a good case to run HAL 
> standalone,
> rather than having to trigger a G-code program at the right moment.

I would say it really needs to be standalone...  libHAL, or just HAL.  
That being said, if the configuration, etc. is built reasonably, it is 
just a couple of lines of change to go from what you must have to get it 
to compile to compile in a related group.

   EBo --


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