On 06/09/2015 10:10 AM, Tom Easterday wrote: > Is it (un)usual to put a random user component into the source distribution > for general release? I have a component that talks to a custom arduino-based > circuit board to control an EMCO lathe turret. I’m fairly certain we will be > making the hardware and various software components open source and am > wondering if we should put the component into the general release? That > would certainly make my own life easier even for my own machine as I wouldn’t > have to worry about making sure it’s there and works if/when the software is > updated or the machine controller pc changes. This assumes that anyone else > gives a poo about it, which might not even be the case, but just wondering > how this is normally handled.
If it's something that can be used without special external software, it's definitely welcome into LinuxCNC. If it needs special external software then i think the comp is better packaged with that software, like my Teensy HAL driver: https://github.com/SebKuzminsky/linuxcnc-hal-teensy But if there's a good argument that it makes life better for our users if we include it, i'm all ears. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
