On Sep 28 2015 10:54 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > On 9/28/15 10:51 AM, EBo wrote: >> On Sep 28 2015 8:37 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >>> On 9/28/15 12:41 AM, Chris Morley wrote: >>>> Personally I think if we really want this included in linuxcnc in >>>> a >>>> reasonably >>>> amount of time we should create a 2.8 branch now and then merge >>>> Joints_Axes >>>> into master. >>>> Based on the past, that puts Joints_Axes into the two years + >>>> position for release. >>>> >>>> It seems to me the only way to get it done is to 'force' more >>>> developers to fix the issues. >>>> eg I'm not going to fix stepconf or pncconf to work with Joints >>>> until I know it will be released. >>>> >>>> Merge it and lets get it done. >>> >>> I think we should merge JA into master before the 2.8 branch. We >>> just >>> released 2.7, so this is a fine time for big experimental features. >>> >>> But i strongly disagree that we should merge it while it has such >>> glaring known problems. JA does not not currently work on lathes, >>> or >>> on >>> other machines with non-consecutive axes! That's unacceptable in >>> master, IMO. >>> >>> When someone volunteers their time and fixes this bug, it will be >>> closer >>> to mergeable. But "forcing" has no place in a volunteer >>> organization. >> >> non-consecutive axes? I am not aware of that term. I probably know >> what you mean, but not by that name... > > It's a term I just made up. I mean machines with multiple axes from > the > list "XYZABCUVW" but with gaps. For example, lathes have axes "XZ", > so > the missing Y makes X and Z non-consecutive. > > Try running the sim/axis/lathe config on joints_axes to see the error > i'm talking about.
OK. This makes sense. It seems strange that that would trigger an error, and I agree that would be a show stopper in the master branch. EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
