Hi, Wes, Thanks for taking on this effort! Here are a few comments:
On Sep 3, 2012, at 4:43 AM, Wesley New wrote: > Removing the following yellow blocks: > XAUI - Only supported by BEE2 and iBOB I didn't realize that XAUI is not supported on the ROACH. I guess if someone needs it on ROACH they can update the existing yellow block from the BEE2/iBOB branch to work on ROACH and reintroduce it into the library. > The environment variable BEE_XPS_LIB_PATH is changing to XPS_BASE_PATH, this > will mean a change to your matlab startsg scripts You're probably planning on something like this anyway, but as a migration aid, please update the scripts to check for the new variable first. If the new variable is not set, then check for the old variable (and print a deprecation warning). If you want, you could print a big error message instead of a warning to force the user to update the variable right away, but I suspect that some users may need the intervention of others to get things like that changed. The main point is please don't have the scripts fail silently/mysteriously if the user has not updated the name of this environment variable. I guess the same thing goes for the value of the variable (i.e. check the last component of the path to see if it is still "xps_lib" and print a warning/error message). It's always nicer to get friendly informative error messages than cryptic ones from tools failing in unforeseen ways. I suppose there could be a corresponding cleanup of the BEE2/iBOB branch (e.g. remove the QDR yellow block, etc.), but I imagine that is not high on your priority list. :-) Thanks again, Dave
