On 08.02.12 07:21, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Again - shamelessly > My interest is having a full free APT system on Linux. Inclusion in > LinuxCNC would cause development - voila - APT on Linux. :)
OK, I have some catching up to do. Is Apt on linux highly desirable because there is no other free CAM postprocessor on linux? At Steve's link showing Apt360 already in use by the LinuxCNC community, there's one to here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/aptos/files/ That shows three postprocessors, and in a squidgy small icon, an activity profile for each. All appear moribund, with no activity for nearly half a decade. Apt360 appears even more dead than the other two. > I would be willing/able to contribute to the process in some manner. I > don't care so much about the 'free' description, I want APT on linux. Yeahbudda, whyfore? To sell this thing, the pitch needs a carrot we all can see. :-) A significant problem with trying to breathe life into a great pile of ancient unstructured fortran code, which has been auto-converted to C, and then the worst bugs beaten out, is the hundreds to thousands of lesser bugs lurking in dim corners. Gaining sufficient overview of a great pile of code, to do more good than harm when fixing bugs, is a big effort, requiring a lot of time and sweat. It is an often-proven axiom that large unstructured code bases reach a point of "brittleness", where bugfixing introduces more new bugs than are rectified. I've worked beside a project which did just that. When the cumulative bug count went through 4000, after nearly a year's delivery delay, the customer said "Don't call us, we'll call you." But if there's something worth going for, then let's look at ways to maybe skin that cat. Erik -- ... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed. -Dennis Ritchie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
