>If other users have similar experiences, then a lot of precious developer time >has been wasted on releases, that don't have much importance. >I believe, that developer time spent on pushing things ahead makes more sense, >than spending it on releases.
I think that sums it up nicely. Look to the future I say! Rod Webster *1300 896 832* +61 435 765 611 VMN® www.vmn.com.au On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 12:33, Reinhard <reinha...@schwarzrot-design.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mittwoch, 10. Juni 2020, 21:38:16 CEST Alec Ari via Emc-developers > wrote: > > X.org was old, so Wayland was invented. Sysvinit was old so SystemD was > > invented. If you don't like the GUI for LinuxCNC because it looks old, > you > > can make your interface look super pretty with qtpyvcp. > > Even if this was meant sarcastic ... > > When I started with linuxcnc, I had only litte change requirements to gui > (well, in my point of view). Not for being old, but for functional > requirements. > Anyway - I started with release, but I had to realize, that neither > glade-, > nor qt-designer-extensions from lc worked on my debian installation. > Asking > for help in forum, I was told, that the designers will work with rip- > installation. > RIP-installation? - wtf - I wanted to start with linuxcnc, not bring it to > cementery > > What ever - when I understand the second meaning of rip, I thought: why > should > I use a release, when I have to recompile all the stuff by myself? > So I changed to git-master (then) and started to use rip-installation. Qt- > designer-extensions stil don't work on my debian box and gscreen uses old > designer (which had to be installed from source) and old python ... > One day I was fatigued from corrupting my debian and using extensions from > lc > that don't really work, so I started to create my own gui. > > Meanwhile I arranged myself for using non-debian stuff on my debian box > and I'm > fine with master. > So I don't care any more for releases. > Never wanted to become a developer for lc, but I had so strange errors, > that > nobody seemed to be interested in, that I had to jump in the mud. > > If other users have similar experiences, then a lot of precious developer > time > has been wasted on releases, that don't have much importance. > I believe, that developer time spent on pushing things ahead makes more > sense, > than spending it on releases. > > > cheers Reinhard > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
