On Jun 15 2013 10:00 AM, John Kasunich wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013, at 04:03 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: >> Andy, Jon - >> >> >> On 14 June 2013 15:03, Matt Shaver <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Should, for >> >>> example, the HAL be installable as a stand alone system (without >> the >> >>> CNC part of linuxcnc)? That was John Kasunich's original idea. >> IIRC >> >>> he was going to call it 'BLOCS'. I'm sorry that, at the time, I >> didn't >> >>> push him in that direction. >> >>> >> >> This is what will happen automatically if we follow the machinekit >> idea through. >> >> HAL: usable standalone by definition (and more likely by other >> automation projects). Good license boundary. >> >> The LinuxCNC package would have MachineKit as a package dependency >> and be in effect using code. >> > (snipped a bit) > > Yes, a long time ago I was going to split HAL out into a > standalone "thing". > > I did create a Sourceforge project called "BLOCS" (which > stood for BLock Oriented Control System"). 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 just checked, and there is not MachineKit project on sourceforge. If there are no objections I strongly nominate/vote/encourage (or whatever we are doing these days) John Kasunich to create a project over on SF named MachineKit, and we have a primed pump to start working ahead... EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
