John, Whether you think this is blown out of proportion or not, you inquiry has led to a very vigorous discussion of how to manage settings and the vision of software development and how that relates to this project.
I rarely post and do not have a strong code writing background but have followed this subject over the past few days with interest. I certainly believe that this has sparked some of the creative juices in some of the readers/respondents. I certainly can appreciate your frustration with the .ini files having had to slog through those a number of years back with EMC 2.2 or thereabouts. The PNCConfig tool was a huge upgrade when it came out. I for one was unaware of the challenges of maintaining it until this discussion. Perhaps this and future discussions by experts with various coding techniques will help simplify the challenges of maintaining tools like PNCConfig and advance this software closer to the lowly dumb users like myself. Thanks for your inputs and questions. B. On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 2:18 PM, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote: > This has been blown way out of proportion. The only file I'd like to see > more organized is the files like Xylotex.ini and the Xylotex.hal files. > > Look. Everyone is already creating .ini files. And they are crap. I was > trying to improve things. I think there should be the ability to throw up > a > form on the screen and fill in the blanks rather than hunting through years > old help messages and documents to try and figure out why something doesn't > work and editing text files. > > However, few people on this list appear to be using the Beagle with > MachineKit to run a Milling Machine so I think at this point this subject > line is dead. > > John > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Albertson [mailto:albertson.ch...@gmail.com] > > Sent: October-13-17 11:00 AM > > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] MachineKit on the BeagleBone Black > > > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 2:48 AM, andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On 13 October 2017 at 08:20, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > There's no reason to not have an XML file (or larger database for > that > > > matter) that includes min/max/default values along with several strings > for > > > help information. > > > > > > Who will maintain this XML file? PnCConf uses XML files to store the > > > possible configurations for each card. The author ended up with an > > > almost full-time job keeping the data up-to-date > > > > > > The best solution is that the authors of the software that accepts the > > parameters > > each define the parameters they use. then the central database is > > maintained by > > scanning those definitions. This way the database if self maintained > and > > kept up > > to data. > > > > It is never good to define something in two places. A central XML file > is > > in effect > > keeping the definition in two places, once it it implicitly in the code > > that uses the > > parameter and again in the XML file Better to place the the entire > > definition in one > > source file. > > > > How to do this? Lots of ways, macro processor, function calls or > > specialized comments > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Chris Albertson > > Redondo Beach, California > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------- > -- > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
