> Am 04.07.2016 um 01:41 schrieb sliptonic <[email protected]>:
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> Now that the Joint/Axis branch has been merged in LinuxCNC, I was curious 
> about the prognosis for the same in Machinekit?   There was some mention in 
> the issue about potential for ROS integration.

not sure in which context that was mentioned, maybe this should be clarified:

as far as ROS/HAL interaction goes, this is unlikely to ever use the motion 
component, as ROS is very good at trajectory planning and kinematics; motion 
brings no value to the table here. The basic task for ROS integration is joint 
trajectory interpolation and playout, and that is already covered by a rather 
simple component. Bas has a pretty good example for that. 

In fact it is a big relief that you can do motion applications _without_ the 
motion component (which honestly is a mess hacked to death, no reusable API, 
and a gazillion of assumptions which essentially limit usability to the CNC 
UI's).

So the JA work adds no tangible value for this use case. 

>  I'd love to hear more about that too.

I think it is good that finally the bad terminology confusion - joints vs axes 
- was cleaned up. World-mode jogging is certainly a plus. Beyond that I do not 
see any significant functional changes, but I might have missed something. For 
instance, if acceleration limits are actually done in joint rather than in axis 
space now, that would warrant an effort; not sure if this is the case - I do 
not remember that being addressed last time I looked at it.

Happy to advise anybody signing up to the task - it is not just a bit of 
patchup of a component but percolates up to UI's and down to configs, so 
certainly not a weekend effort.

My own priorities still are: website improvement, package split, move to cmake, 
integrate the multicore work.

- Michael

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