I've often wondered if a configuration wizard for each family of cards would make more sense and have less confusion with a newbee by having fewer options to work through. I even started one for the 5i25 once until I figured out that Chris had 5i25 in pncconf.
JT On 10/5/2013 6:26 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 5 October 2013 05:54, Chris Morley <chrisinnana...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for that. Some times I think PNCconf is linuxcnc's red hair stepchild. >> I think most Devs underestimate the importance of what it is trying to >> achieve. > I think that folk tend to under-estimate just how difficult it is to > do the job it tries to do. > I think it was probably a containable task when you started and there > were 3 cards, 4 daughter boards and a dozen firmware files. > > Then many more cards came along, and cards that declare their own pin > names, and that have different sets of pins depending on hardware and > software switches, and some that don't even need firmware, and the job > got really very big. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
