Am 15.06.2013 um 18:51 schrieb EBo <[email protected]>: > 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...
Priming the pump starts with laying out the plan While I have alluded to plans, I havent laid them out in full beyond email I would like to do that post the Wichita meeting, which will give the opportunity to discuss some of this like so: http://www.despair.com/collaboration.html yes, I have registered machinekit.net and machinekit.org ; I same machinekit.com, and found it harmless (or even appealing to some inmates) - Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
