Re: [Emc-developers] Breakout of HAL/ machinekits's HAL

2018-09-09 Thread Chris Morley
Mick Thanks for joining in. I should point out that this idea was formed and brought up me me alone. There has been no internal discussion in linuxcnc. That was the point of this - to gauge interest and see if there are immediate road blocks, such as license, philosophy, or complete lack of

Re: [Emc-developers] Breakout of HAL/ machinekits's HAL

2018-09-09 Thread Steve Better
Thanks your reply. I will have a try, though I am not involved in this with my work now. Really hope this project will make a great difference. From: schoone...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2018 3:47:44 PM To: Steve Better; EMC developers Subject: Re: [Emc

Re: [Emc-developers] Breakout of HAL/ machinekits's HAL

2018-09-09 Thread schoone...@gmail.com
Hi Steve The main problem is probably your OS We only support Debian and the package dependencies are based upon what is in the Debian repos. Ubuntu tends to just do whatever it likes and wants to 'Ubuntuise' everything. There is a reason why the linuxcnc distro image is also Debian based.

Re: [Emc-developers] Breakout of HAL/ machinekits's HAL

2018-09-09 Thread Jon Elson
On 09/09/2018 12:23 AM, Chris Morley wrote: The possibility of moving our realtime system with the modern trends seems important to at least consider. Well, the ability to interconnect multiple instances of LinuxCNC seems like it could be useful in a lot of special applications, especiall

Re: [Emc-developers] Breakout of HAL/ machinekits's HAL

2018-09-09 Thread Steve Better
Hi Schooner,   Glad you are here!   I tried to install Machinekit-HAL today. My OS is Ubuntu 16.04. After I installed libczmq-dev with apt-get, I just cannot continue successfully with the following error: "Requested 'libczmq > 4.0' but version of libczmq is 3.0.2" This is not friendly to a

Re: [Emc-developers] Breakout of HAL/ machinekits's HAL

2018-09-09 Thread schoone...@gmail.com
Hi Chris, As my paws are all over a lot of the work you are mentioning (multicore in collaboration with Michael Haberler some years back) and the splitting into HAL and CNC stacks, why not contact me direct to discuss. I think there is scope for collaboration which could be to both our projec

Re: [Emc-developers] Breakout of HAL/ machinekits's HAL

2018-09-09 Thread John Morris
On 09/09/2018 03:05 AM, Chris Morley wrote: I see that machinekit has broken out HAL and cnc (Well and lots of others) into different repositories. https://github.com/machinekit [https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/6759549?s=280&v=4] machinekit · GitHub

Re: [Emc-developers] Breakout of HAL/ machinekits's HAL

2018-09-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 September 2018 23:54:33 Jon Elson wrote: > On 09/08/2018 07:27 PM, Chris Morley wrote: > > Jon > > > > I'm not sure where they are at with replacing NML, but that is not > > what I was talking of. > > > > They have split the cnc stack from the HAL stack > > > > HAL is what I am talk