On 18 February 2015 at 01:52, Pete Matos <petefro...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the least they > could do is to make it available to the community as a whole in some shape > or form.
There is a secondary issue here that should be considered. If Tormach or any other end-user want to make a change to LinuxCNC then that change only has to satisfy their requirements, and they can use it. This is a _long_ way from the code finding its way into the LinuxCNC main releases. Their code is working on known hardware and known configs. To be acceptable to the project "gatekeepers" the code has to work on all possible hardware platforms past, present and future. And to cover all conceivable use-cases. And various aesthetic considerations. Writing the code to work on your own machine is the easy part. Getting it accepted into LinuxCNC is a lot of work that I can understand Tormach not wanting to be bothered with. They tried (and failed) to get a lathe-mode tool-change patch accepted for instance. I have quite a few customisations on my machines that I simply can't be bothered to attempt to push. So, even if Tormach do make their code available, there is no guarantee that the features would find their way into LinuxCNC. (And we don't even know at the moment if PathPilot is based on Machinekit or LinuxCNC) -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
