On 04/03/2014 09:26 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: > > We are pleased to announce the formation of the Machinekit project [1][2][3]. > > Machinekit is an overhaul of the real-time and glue infrastructure which > supports LinuxCNC. Machinekit is intended to be broadly applicable to > real-time control applications. Non-CNC systems such as general automation > and robotics are potential target applications for Machinekit, as is more > traditional CNC machine control. Messaging API support to enable distributed > operation across a broad range of platforms including tablets, traditional > desktop machines, and embedded systems has progressed considerably and shows > first results [4][5][6]. > > Machinekit will be based on the unified-binary code from the start. The > intent is to adopt innovation at a rapid pace while remaining a stable > baseline, enable wider adoption by simplifying usage and the contribution > process, as well as providing the lowest cost realtime control application > supporting ubiquitous UI hardware. > > Active community involvement is a critical part of our vision for this peer > project so we are adopting the Collective Code Construction Contract (C4) > [7]. Our desire is to make it easy for anyone to contribute to the project > and to provide objective guidelines for the acceptance and merging of > changes. For an excellent discussion of the C4 contract rationale and > building a community around an open source project, see Chapter 6 of the 0MQ > guide [8]. > > Sincerely, > > The Machinekit team members: > > Michael Haberler > John Morris > Charles Steinkuehler > Kent Reed > Alexander Rössler >
Congratulations & Thank You, Best of success to your project. I wish the same for the LinuxCNC crew. You have all done remarkable work. TomP (tjtr33) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
