On Tuesday 17 January 2017 10:15:25 Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:

> 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_Ge
> >>>nerators
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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.

First I have heard of it, thanks for mentioning it.  Sounds handy so I 
looked it up.  Looks usable on the mills, but I get about halfway down 
the readme page and lathes aren't supported yet. :( Twould be handy.

> 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.

Does this Native CAM not now have an active developer?  

In any event, I have now spent about 4 hours chaseing CAM links. 
Enjoyable, even comical reading.


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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