I don't think you can use grotius's repo as Scott Laird's current repo at https://github.com/linuxcnc-ethercat includes a lot of enhancements that Grotius will not include. Grotius includes a header file from etherlab's Ethercat master repo https://etherlab.org/en_GB/ethercat Whilst, it is required to compile, it should not be just copied into the project. A better source might be the libethercat-dev package. Finally, it ignores the project history. Why not use my fork or anybody elses at random? Scott Laird had permission from the original developer Sasha Itnner to take over the project and developed workflows that published his Deb files to the etherlab repositories. Prior to Scott arriving on the scene, etherlab also had Sasha's consent to host his repo and were doing so before Scott started adding enhancements. Sasha has been active in discussions on Scott's repository in 2026. Sasha tells people on his repo to use Scotts. There are only two valid sources should linuxcnc take it over: Scott Laird's https://github.com/linuxcnc-ethercat Luca's https://github.com/grandixximo/linuxcnc-ethercat I think the preferred course would be work from Scott's and Luca should send his recent and important PR to the new repo. workflows should then publish the deb files to the Linuxcnc repository. Rod Webster
On 2026-04-11 06:31, Amit Goradia <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM Bari <[email protected]> wrote: > > > After 4 months of no replies I'd call that abandoned. How much longer > > should you wait? Fork it publicly and move on with our lives. It's > > trivial to merge later IF the other fork maintainer reappears. People > > get sick or worse, have kids, loose interest, etc etc. > > > > > Bari, your sentence phrasing is really hilarious if you do not parse the > comma properly... > People get sick or worse, have kids... LOL... > > > > On 4/7/26 4:04 AM, Luca Toniolo wrote: > > > Scott has been out for about 4 months, no answers no merging, does > > anyone else have the administration access to the > > linuxcnc-ethercat/linuxcnc-ethercat repo on GitHub? Users on the forum have > > been pointed to my fork, but I am not sure that is proper, Sascha's work is > > not compatible at the moment, need some guidance from a maintainer for > > direction on the project... > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Emc-developers mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > > > Luca, I agree with Bari, 4 months with no response can be construed as > abandoned. Also, the Go dependencies introduced in this project was a bit > of a bother anyways. > I'd much prefer to use grotius' fork available at > https://codeberg.org/skynet/linuxcnc-ethercat where he moved everything to > a CMake file although he lost most of the directory structure. > -automata > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-developers mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
