I have spent the past year building an new open source robotics development platform and wanted to show you fine folks working on Git:
BowlerStudio: https://github.com/NeuronRobotics/BowlerStudio I started working a set of robotics control libraries back in 2009 and have deployed them as the control framework for MRI compatible robots. Over the past year i began developing a set of tutorials for building robots using my framework. In this process i build a small scripting engine that uses Git as its file system. This allows scripts to hyperlink to each other based on the Git repository they live in. The platform supports Java/Groovy, Clojure, and Python scripts, and these scripts use an "Object in Object out" version of the Pipe pattern for interfacing. Since the JVM provides the common runtime, they can pass memory references back and forth in the pipe pattern as opposed to parsing and building stings. This lets any of the languages trivially interoperate together. If a script you want is in a different langauge hosted on a different Git repo, no problem just call it in line and the compiled and typed object is returned. Under the hood, JGIT, the same library eclipse uses to provide Git support, is the library that manages the local caches of files pulled from the Git repo. The scripting engine has features to commit changes and push them upstream. In the Tutorials, you look at spike examples in the WebBrowser (using GitHub Gist to JS embed the code), JGIT takes the Git URL extracted from the Gist, caches the repo to the disk, and makes it availible to the new user to run. From there the user can fork, modify, and publish changes to the demo code. In this way, all examples are executable right out of the built in browser for the fastest startup time with new code examples. The Application is used to connect cameras, robot controllers, kinematics libraries, CSG Cad engine, a physics engine and a few AI libraries all in a common runtime with a shallow on-ramp for even novice programmers. TL;DR Kerbal Space Program meets ROS on the JVM using Git as a filesystem -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
