To add to the history lesson... On Saturday 17 May 2008, Ray Henry wrote: > The BDI evolved out of an early discussion that we came to call a > Brain Dead Install when the EMC was still a part of NIST. It's > difficult to imagine now how much trouble it was to get a running > version of the EMC software back then. Paul Corner took up the > challenge and produced what he officially named the BDI.
The early releases were based on Red Hat (6.x used the RTLinux patch). Later releases switched to using RTAI and Debian as a base. At one point, a LiveCD was produced, but it proved to be tiresome to debug and update as well as being an inflexible medium for those wanting to perform a minimal install. Aside from a couple of releases, effort was taken to ensure the tools and libraries were included so that EMC could be compiled without having to download extra packages. It was fortunate that EMC did not require any obscure or specific library versions aside from a suitable kernel & realtime support. A seperate forum was set up to provide help for users WRT general Linux usage as it was felt that poor advice was being given by one or two - Something that has continued, and now spills over to other lists/forums. Despite that, space has always been allocated for emc2 (since it started), and when it has been demonstrated to be a viable alternative, it would be included. > When we -- fondly called EMC2 -- and He -- fondly called tuxcnc -- > parted ways, It was JMK & sidekicks that moved CVS away from Sourceforge without discussion (and overstepped his mandate) - I no longer have access to the repository (not even anonymous), and JMK decided a long while ago that I wouldn't be contributing any further... Apart from the usual suspects, just who has write access to CVS amongst the registered "developers" listed on Sourceforge ? Re: tuxcnc - What I do outside the remit of Sourceforge is of little concern here, and it is not a name I would wish to associate with what you might call "emc2". IF I release any code, be assured, it will have little in common with emc2 apart from a requirement for a realtime kernel. emc2 - 958 compile time warnings/errors and counting. --- Paul. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
