Am 01.07.2013 um 16:20 schrieb EBo <e...@sandien.com>:

> On Jul 1 2013 8:13 AM, TJoseph Powderly wrote:
>> On 07/01/2013 01:11 AM, Michael Haberler wrote:
>>> 
>>> Am 01.07.2013 um 07:25 schrieb David Bagby 
>>> <d...@calypsoventures.com>:
>>> 
>>>> Andy, Michael,
>>>> The network accessibility of the data store and the associated API 
>>>> is
>>>> key to both providing and understanding the functionality that this
>>>> approach could provide.
>>>> Is there a proposed design document that lays out the API?
>>> 
>>> not yet, this is the time to contribute your thoughts on the issue
>>> 
>>> the way I envisage it to be is to be rather pythonic than c-ish, 
>>> namely using name/value pairs as arguments rather than say positional 
>>> arguments, which seems to me more suitable to the case and more 
>>> extensible that a C binding
>>> 
>>> on the operative level what I'll as soon as I'm back do is spin out 
>>> a branch which has protobuf support and zmq examples in place so work 
>>> can start 'in tree' on the issue
>>> 
>>> - Michael
>>> 
>>> 
>> will the toolstore be only for linuxcnc or also for machines running
>> just HAL?
>> 
>> the python binding key:value sounds to me like a dict for each tool,
>> 
>> a dict allows different key sets for different tools( the broach has
>> keys that the grinding wheel does not )
>> 
>> will tool related data like spindle rpm and coolant be in the 
>> toolstore?
> 
> that is an interesting take on the tool properties issue (ie a dict for 
> each tool).  That raises a question though how deeply you want Python to 
> get into LinuxCNC.

No, it does not; a key/value pair-based API does not imply any language.

See also my previous message.

- Michael


> You might be able to write it all in python (minus 
> the hard real-time bits, and maybe even those).
> 
> EBo --
> 
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