On Mar 22, 2017 9:23 PM, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
On quarta-feira, 22 de mar?o de 2017 09:47:48 PDT Thiago Moura wrote: > Well, it's been awhile and no decision on this topic. The decision was made after discussion on the mailing list: Arduino support is being removed from the IoTivity Standard. If anyone wants to revive it, they're welcome to do so in Constrained. > I am very curious if anyone here is developing real products based on > arduino (due/mega). Intel's research shows no one develops products with Arduino. They use it for early proof-of-concepts, then throw everything away and rewrite the code (no code reuse) when going to actual product prototypes. which btw proves the point that *some* form of arduino support is not only merited but highly recommended. besides, it's not all about commercial products; it's more about growing the ecosystem, imho. i agree that the arduino stuff should be removed from the main (or "standard" or whatever you want to call it) iotivity source, but i see a source of potential confusion here, since the iotivity in general does a rather poor job (imo) of communicating the difference between "iotivity" and the many implementations. At most, Arduino gets used by hobbyists for one-off implementations in their own homes. So it's worthwhile to make it work, but not at the expense of real products. i don't mean to be churlish, but steve jobs and whatshisname were hobbyists. the more hobbyists work with iotivity the better. the message should be an enthusiastic "iotivity works great with arduino! come on in!" with the caveat that you have to use the right iotivity lib and arduino hw. in an ideal world, we would have a big docs section devoted entirely to get the arduino hobbyists up to speed, speedily. some of them will move on to real innovative products, and become billionaires, and give all of us a small cut. > Back to the subject.. I think dropping support for Arduino will benefit > everyone nit: removing arduino support code in the main project will benefit everyone. g -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.iotivity.org/pipermail/iotivity-dev/attachments/20170323/176151b9/attachment.html>
