On 01/17/2017 03:32 AM, Nicholas Humfrey wrote:
> On 2017-01-16 23:32, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
>> On 01/16/2017 02:38 PM, Nicholas Humfrey wrote:
>>> Do you think it would be a good idea to move the "Simple LinuxCNC G-Code
>>> Generators Written in Python" to GitHub? I looked and couldn't find them
>>> there already. Perhaps the python scripts and documentation could go in
>>> their own repo?
>>>
>>> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Simple_LinuxCNC_G-Code_Generators
>>>
>>>
>>> It would make it easier to download them all, track changes and accept
>>> improvements via Pull Requests.
>>>
>>> I would be happy to help perform the move, if it is a good idea.
>>>
>>>
>>> nick.
>>
>> I think that's a great idea, thanks for volunteering!
>
> Great!
>
> Shall I start off creating a repo in my own account and then move it to
> the linuxcnc org later?

That sounds good.

It looks to me like the code on that wiki page is mostly of the 
"conversational programming" sort, where a GUI window asks the user to 
poke & prod buttons and things to make some g-code.  If so, it might fit 
in the "wizards.git" repo we have at git.linuxcnc.org:

http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=wizards.git;a=summary

That repo has been sort of orphaned, perhaps eclipsed by things like 
ngcgui and (maybe) NativeCAM.


I think there's room for a new open source project to unify all these 
different implementations of the conversational programming concept that 
people seem to like.  Many of the LinuxCNC GUIs can make tabs from 
external programs, so we have at least the beginning of a unified 
interface from these conversational-programming GUIs to our regular 
machine-control GUIs.

A developer who wanted to unify and merge the ideas from the different 
conversational projects could do a lot of good for our ecosystem.


-- 
Sebastian Kuzminsky

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