Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-15 Thread John
Yes, the links all work and after a few minutes of time I have manually copied them to the CNC menu. JT On 9/14/20 6:49 PM, andy pugh wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 22:14, John wrote: From the deian 10 pc john@d10cave:~$ dpkg -L linuxcnc-doc-en /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/applications

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-14 Thread John
From the deian 10 pc john@d10cave:~$ dpkg -L linuxcnc-doc-en /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/applications /usr/share/applications/linuxcnc-documentation.desktop /usr/share/applications/linuxcnc-gettingstarted.desktop /usr/share/applications/linuxcnc-integratorinfo.desktop /usr/share/applications

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-14 Thread John
john@d10cave:~$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/linuxcnc* /usr/share/doc/linuxcnc: total 17840 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  879 Sep 11 01:16 AUTHORS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  506 Sep 11 01:16 axis_light_background drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 12 06:13 examples -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    12943 Sep 11

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-14 Thread John
in /usr/share/applications I see the following desktop files for LinuxCNC G-Code Quick Reference - EN G-Code Quick Reference - VI Latency Test LinuxCNC Manual Pages Pncconf Wizard Stepconf Wizard JT On 9/14/20 5:51 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 10:59, John wrote: My debian 10

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-14 Thread John
ion         linuxcnc-doc.directory                     X-CNC-DOC               t> The debian 9 file is the same. JT On 9/14/20 3:44 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 at 20:16, John wrote: One is Debian 10 and was an upgrade from 2.8-pre the other pc is Debian 9 and it was a downgrad

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-13 Thread John
One is Debian 10 and was an upgrade from 2.8-pre the other pc is Debian 9 and it was a downgrade from 2.9-pre. JT On 9/13/20 10:49 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 at 14:45, John wrote: Yea I just looked and some on one pc is in Other and all on another pc is in Other... very

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-13 Thread John
/9/20 4:49 am, John Thornton wrote: I would assume that all the desktops that are available for Debian use the same standard. JT On 9/12/2020 9:37 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 15:25, John wrote: Booting from the livedvd the menus are interestingly different than in the past. Doc

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-12 Thread John Thornton
I would assume that all the desktops that are available for Debian use the same standard. JT On 9/12/2020 9:37 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 15:25, John wrote: Booting from the livedvd the menus are interestingly different than in the past. Documentation leads to a large list

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-12 Thread John
at 14:08, John wrote: On a debian 9 pc I lose the entire cnc menu... What do you get with a download from www.linuxcnc.org/ ? (ie the released 2.8 version) (I am trying to gauge to what extent I need to panic) ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc

Re: [Emc-developers] Web site download docs

2020-09-12 Thread John
I've cleaned up and sorted the 2.8 downloads section and it looks clearer to me... JT On 9/12/20 6:49 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 12:18, John wrote: Can you be more specific, I'm not seeing what your referring to. He's an Australian and reading it upside down. :-) Arguably

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-12 Thread John
On a debian 9 pc I lose the entire cnc menu... JT On 9/12/20 6:51 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 12:19, John wrote: When I upgraded the docs from 2.8 pre to 2.8.0 they disappeared from the menu. I uninstalled and reinstalled and still no Documentation entry in any menu. English

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-12 Thread John
Yes the en docs and no after adding the es docs they still are missing from the menu JT On 9/12/20 6:51 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 12:19, John wrote: When I upgraded the docs from 2.8 pre to 2.8.0 they disappeared from the menu. I uninstalled and reinstalled and still

Re: [Emc-developers] Web site download docs

2020-09-12 Thread John
Ok I see the cornfusingness JT On 9/12/20 6:49 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 12:18, John wrote: Can you be more specific, I'm not seeing what your referring to. He's an Australian and reading it upside down. :-) Arguably the indentation is confusing

[Emc-developers] 2.8 Install from Buildbot

2020-09-12 Thread John
When I upgraded the docs from 2.8 pre to 2.8.0 they disappeared from the menu. I uninstalled and reinstalled and still no Documentation entry in any menu. JT ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-developers] Web site download docs

2020-09-12 Thread John
Can you be more specific, I'm not seeing what your referring to. JT On 9/12/20 2:25 AM, Rod Webster wrote: I think the docs on the download page need some tidying up. We are referring to Stretch under the Wheezy heading... See https://linuxcnc.org/downloads/ Rod Webster *1300 896 832* +61

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC 2.8 pre3 pi4

2020-09-06 Thread John
I just noticed an ad for MagPi magazine in the ~/MagPi directory... might consider deleting it. JT On 9/6/20 7:24 AM, John wrote: Ok, that makes sense. Running the latency-histogram --nobase and some gears and using a bash script the CPU speed is rock steady at 1500 Mhz and the temperature

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC 2.8 pre3 pi4

2020-09-06 Thread John
Ok, that makes sense. Running the latency-histogram --nobase and some gears and using a bash script the CPU speed is rock steady at 1500 Mhz and the temperature is 35C-37C in a fan cooled case. JT On 9/6/20 6:44 AM, Andy Pugh wrote: On 6 Sep 2020, at 12:15, John wrote: I also noticed

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC 2.8 pre3 pi4

2020-09-06 Thread John
in the configuration screen. However I don't see where user pi is in /etc/passwd so that puzzles me a bit. I'll have to look into that... I also noticed that SPI was enabled, this puzzles me why that is enabled? JT On 9/6/20 5:56 AM, John wrote: Other than adding a read me file to the desktop with the user name

[Emc-developers] LinuxCNC 2.8 pre3 pi4

2020-09-06 Thread John
Other than adding a read me file to the desktop with the user name and password everything seems to work. I wonder why we don't have a menu item for the latency histogram? It seems to make more sense to have latency-histogram --nobase as a tool for checking latency on a preempt kernel. JT

Re: [Emc-developers] Chinese Docs

2020-08-28 Thread John Thornton
That sounds like the best plan. JT On 8/28/2020 2:20 PM, andy pugh wrote: I can get the build system to create a Chinese docs pdf by changing the backend to xetex. But texlive-xetex isn't available for Wheeezy (and maybe not for Precise) But, even then, the document is gibberish, with every

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8.0-pre3

2020-08-25 Thread John
Should we edit that line until the 2.8.0 ISO is released and mention it's a test release? JT On 8/24/20 11:46 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 17:39, Ed wrote: http://www.linuxcnc.org/iso/linuxcnc-2.8.0-buster.iso Above gives a 404 error. Am I missing something? The docs are

Re: [Emc-developers] Docs query

2020-08-20 Thread John
at 11:58, John wrote: I do see it in master... That would explain it, sorry for the confusion. I was juggling a VM window and a github window, both on my iMac trying to compile a list of which hal components have spanish translations and which don't. It is quite likely that the github window

Re: [Emc-developers] Docs query

2020-08-20 Thread John
I do see it in master... JT On 8/20/20 5:56 AM, John wrote: I just built 2.8 docs and I don't see the filter-kalmann HAL component. Where is the filter-kalmann HAL component in the docs? I don't see it in the man pages which is where I assume your talking about. I don't see any comp or c

Re: [Emc-developers] Docs query

2020-08-20 Thread John
I just built 2.8 docs and I don't see the filter-kalmann HAL component. Where is the filter-kalmann HAL component in the docs? I don't see it in the man pages which is where I assume your talking about. I don't see any comp or c file by that name in src/hal/components... JT On 8/19/20 8:21

Re: [Emc-developers] Docs query

2020-08-20 Thread John
I assume your working with the 2.8 docs? I'll see what's up. JT On 8/19/20 8:21 PM, andy pugh wrote: I know why the new filter-kalmann HAL component does not show up in the Spanish docs. It is because those use a static version of index_es.tmpl and it isn't mentioned there. But the English

Re: [Emc-developers] Help!

2020-08-17 Thread John
I tried to understand what I'm looking at but failed to understand what caused the errors. JT On 8/15/20 6:41 PM, andy pugh wrote: I am starting to feel that I might have bitten off more than I can chew here. Does anyone have any idea why _some_ packages fail and others seem OK?

Re: [Emc-developers] Upgrading LinuxCNC

2020-07-29 Thread John Thornton
On 7/29/2020 9:09 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 at 14:57, John wrote: The first issue that showed up was a complaint about security updates not found. The 2.6 LiveCD dates from the late neolithic (2011, possibly 2012) and the repositories have been archived. I re-made the 2.7

[Emc-developers] Upgrading LinuxCNC

2020-07-29 Thread John
In order to test step by step upgrading from 2.7 to 2.8 I grabbed a Debian Wheezy CD with 2.6 on it and installed it on a HD. This is mainly to document my experience. The first issue that showed up was a complaint about security updates not found. The second issue I tried to connect to

Re: [Emc-developers] "Getting LinuxCNC"

2020-07-28 Thread John
I was thinking of a Debian version... I'll setup a PC with 2.7 and do an upgrade to 2.8 and update the docs. JT On 7/27/20 5:02 PM, andy pugh wrote: On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 22:57, John Thornton wrote: If we have a more current version that can be changed in the 2.8 and up docs I'd assume

Re: [Emc-developers] "Getting LinuxCNC"

2020-07-27 Thread John Thornton
If we have a more current version that can be changed in the 2.8 and up docs I'd assume. Last I saw the next version of OS was marked testing or something like that and it would make my chickens stop laying eggs and my milk cow to go dry... If we have a LiveCD or other method for Debian 10 I

Re: [Emc-developers] Changelog

2020-07-13 Thread John Thornton
Hopefully the authors of those will chime in with the info on their work. IMHO too much detail can be just as bad as too little... JT On 7/13/2020 6:00 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 11:40, John wrote: Looks good to me. I am a bit fuzzy on Silverdragon / QTdragon. And I

Re: [Emc-developers] Changelog

2020-07-13 Thread John
Looks good to me. JT On 7/12/20 4:14 PM, andy pugh wrote: I tried auto-generating a changelog with the script and got rather a lot of entries (many thousands) I have pared them down to those I think might affect users. https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/2.8/debian/changelog Can you

Re: [Emc-developers] What to do about the docs?

2020-07-13 Thread John
If we keep the French docs they should be only in the version where they are up to date. The Spanish docs can be dropped as only a few pages were translated. JT On 7/12/20 8:31 AM, andy pugh wrote: I consider the "CNC" menu to be excessively cluttered. It has links to the PDF docs in all

Re: [Emc-developers] Docs help required

2020-07-08 Thread John Thornton
I'll pull that in the morning during free time and see if I can get the PDF's to build. JT On 7/7/2020 6:48 PM, andy pugh wrote: I realised recently that the new Chinese dos were not being built. I have tried to fix this, and the HTML docs very nearly work (and should be viewable on the

Re: [Emc-developers] Docs help required

2020-07-08 Thread John
Odd, when I try and view a page on github I get a 404 page not found. https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/andypugh/cn_docs/docs/src/getting-started/Master_Getting_Started_cn.txt Are the Chinese docs only on your branch? JT On 7/7/20 6:48 PM, andy pugh wrote: I realised recently that

Re: [Emc-developers] test failure

2020-07-05 Thread John Morris
der-sanity This is probably related to changes I recently put in. Can you please include the `stderr` and `results` files from the failed test? That should tell us more about what went wrong. Thanks- John ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Situation

2020-06-17 Thread John Morris
out sooner hardly seems like a significant step towards Machinekit's "no-releases" model, even while it is a move to temporarily streamline one release requirement. [1]: https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec/42/ John ___ Emc-developers mailing

Re: [Emc-developers] quirks of ngcgui

2020-06-14 Thread John
I've always ran ngcgui as a tab in Axis and never tried to run it stand alone. Maybe it needs a main window as a container. JT On 6/13/20 9:41 AM, Reinhard wrote: Hi, for testing purpose I wanted to try ngcgui. When I called ngcgui from commandline, I first wondered, why nothing happens.

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Situation

2020-06-09 Thread John Thornton
I'm not seeing where RTAI is being removed from LinuxCNC only suggestions so far say release preempt-rt now and hold RTAI ISO until the bug can be sorted out. It's not good to hold back at least a portion of 2.8 when they are used for different reasons. I don't know you but I appreciate any

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Situation

2020-06-09 Thread John Alexander Stewart
-of-the-blue submit bug-fixes. Respectfully - John A. Stewart. ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Situation

2020-06-09 Thread John Freeborg
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Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Situation

2020-06-09 Thread John Thornton
At this point I would suggest releasing 2.8 with preempt-rt ISO and if at a later date RTAI becomes stable release that ISO. Just my 2¢ well with inflation maybe my $2 JT On 6/9/2020 5:25 AM, andy pugh wrote: I had hoped to release 2.8 at Easter, but hit a roadblock. My plan was to offer

Re: [Emc-developers] PRs, CI, issue reporting

2020-05-20 Thread John Morris
On 5/20/20 6:31 PM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 11:20, John Morris wrote: I see the GH org's repo has 281 branches. (!!!) Are all those branches inherited from glo (I see some of my own branches in there!), or are individuals still pushing directly to their own feature branches

Re: [Emc-developers] PRs, CI, issue reporting

2020-05-20 Thread John Morris
On 5/20/20 5:30 PM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 10:19, John Morris wrote: You don't need to change your feature branch workflow, and of course you can manage those however you like. It's only when you're ready to merge your feature branch into mainline that the &quo

Re: [Emc-developers] PRs, CI, issue reporting

2020-05-20 Thread John Morris
On 5/20/20 4:38 PM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 08:29, John Morris wrote: (B) Some changes going into mainline branches are not going through PRs. If this is not a deliberate decision and the situation evolved organically from the days of glo, the project should consider

[Emc-developers] PRs, CI, issue reporting

2020-05-20 Thread John Morris
base. John [1]: https://docs.buildbot.net/0.8.9/manual/cfg-statustargets.html#githubstatus ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers

Re: [Emc-developers] Third-Party GUIs.

2020-05-01 Thread John Thornton
Actually I would just link to the QtPyVCP web site qtpyvcp.com JT On 5/1/2020 4:28 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 01 May 2020 16:38:01 John Thornton wrote: Sounds like a good idea to me. JT I think so too John, but verifying that all those extras are alive and well is more than I'll ask

Re: [Emc-developers] Third-Party GUIs.

2020-05-01 Thread John Thornton
Sounds like a good idea to me. JT On 5/1/2020 7:17 AM, andy pugh wrote: I wonder if the docs should mention the GUIs that are made for LinuxCNC but are not part of LinuxCNC? I am thinking of http://www.qtpyvcp.com/showcase/mill_vcps.html And https://github.com/DjangoReinhard/JCNCScreen And

Re: [Emc-developers] Document errors

2020-04-20 Thread John
A fixed width of 1000 may be your issue. JT On 4/18/20 7:43 PM, Phill Carter wrote: A forum user posted some PDF doc errors in the way some graphics appear:

Re: [Emc-developers] New 2.8 Release Manager

2020-04-03 Thread John Thornton
Indeed I have two machines running Ubuntu 10.04... if it ain't broke don't fix it. I agree that Debian 10 should be the prime release in both RTAI and PREEMPT-RT and if possible Mint. At this time I don't see any advantage of Mint over Debian because you can get the user friendly Mate

Re: [Emc-developers] New 2.8 Release Manager

2020-04-03 Thread John Thornton
: On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 23:01, John Thornton wrote: Is there a way to do a test release just to see if we have all our ducks in a row? I tried to create a test-ISO before Christmas, but found that I didn't know how to get the packages properly signed and in the right places on the server. I do have

Re: [Emc-developers] Change of email address.

2020-04-02 Thread John Thornton
Is this for the mailing list or the forum? JT On 4/1/2020 11:06 AM, Paul Kessler wrote: To Whom it may concern: Please change my email address from paul.kess...@cadminservices.com to paul.kess...@suddenlink.net. I

Re: [Emc-developers] New 2.8 Release Manager

2020-04-02 Thread John Thornton
Andy, I'd be willing to work with you on the task of release manager. Is there a way to do a test release just to see if we have all our ducks in a row? JT On 4/1/2020 1:08 PM, andy pugh wrote: I have had a brief discussion with Moses, the current 2.8 Release Manager and he has said that

Re: [Emc-developers] translate linuxcnc documentation into Chinese

2020-03-02 Thread John Thornton
Hello, I can assist you in getting started with the documents. The documents use Asciidoc and must be compiled and pass. Please read the docs/asciidoc-markup.txt for the syntax used. To start make a copy of (for example) getting-linuxcnc.txt and be sure and use the English document as your

Re: [Emc-developers] Touchy Tweak?

2020-02-26 Thread John Thornton
That is a good idea! Did you get a touch screen sized buttons on your popup? JT On 2/26/2020 3:16 PM, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: I did that on my version of touchy. The shutdown button pops up a dialog and gives 3 options - shutdown, restart, or close (and cancel the dialog). They just exit

Re: [Emc-developers] Touchy Tweak?

2020-02-26 Thread John Thornton
I'm not sure how you could pretend to be root in a running Python program. On 2/26/2020 12:37 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 26 February 2020 12:36:36 John wrote: Interesting, how would you shut down any PC from Python? Have it issue this string to a root shell "shutdown -h now&q

Re: [Emc-developers] Touchy Tweak?

2020-02-26 Thread John Thornton
the window manager prompt the last uses a system call and doesn't have a prompt. Chris From: andy pugh Sent: February 26, 2020 3:28 PM To: EMC developers Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Touchy Tweak? On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 15:01, John Thornton wrote: often

Re: [Emc-developers] Touchy Tweak?

2020-02-26 Thread John
Interesting, how would you shut down any PC from Python? JT On 2/26/20 9:28 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 15:01, John Thornton wrote: often wished it had and "Exit App" button. I really hate the "Do you really want to quit" nag... it's so annoying to have t

Re: [Emc-developers] Touchy Tweak?

2020-02-26 Thread John Thornton
I no longer use Touchy on any machine and use QtPyVCP and all of my GUI's have an "Exit App" button which I find very helpful when trouble shooting anything. It's much handier to close LinuxCNC with the touch screen than dig out my keyboard/touch pad. When I used to use Touchy I often wished

Re: [Emc-developers] G71 and friends

2020-01-11 Thread John
I'm the same on my Hardinge CHNC 99% of the ops are done with ngcgui subroutines... one of these days I'll update the Ubuntu 10.04 to Debian 10 and install my QtPyVCP GUI. JT On 1/8/20 7:02 PM, andy pugh wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 00:53, Ben Potter wrote: I used to feel the same way,

Re: [Emc-developers] How to retreive the source for an old version of linuxcnc

2019-12-20 Thread John
From your LinuxCNC directory git branch -a will list all the branches so then you can get the exact branch name to checkout. Starting in v2.6 we started using simple branch names... git checkout 2.6 The ~pre tag is for unreleased branches... JT On 12/19/19 5:59 PM, Frank Tkalcevic wrote:

Re: [Emc-developers] Gmoccapy

2019-12-02 Thread John Thornton
to that image file - and there wasn't one. Chris From: John Sent: December 2, 2019 12:04 AM To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-developers] Gmoccapy When I try and build the docs I get this error: ../docs/src/Submakefile:617: *** Required image file

Re: [Emc-developers] Gmoccapy

2019-12-02 Thread John Thornton
never mind, I forgot to pull... JT On 12/1/2019 6:04 PM, John wrote: When I try and build the docs I get this error: ../docs/src/Submakefile:617: *** Required image file ../docs/src/gui/images/gmoccapy_ntb_user_tab.png does not exist. Stop. JT

[Emc-developers] Gmoccapy

2019-12-01 Thread John
When I try and build the docs I get this error: ../docs/src/Submakefile:617: *** Required image file ../docs/src/gui/images/gmoccapy_ntb_user_tab.png does not exist. Stop. JT ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-developers] Buildbot

2019-11-27 Thread John
You should email Seb... JT On 11/26/19 7:38 PM, Phillip Carter wrote: It looks like the Buildbot is down, I cannot access the waterfall. Cheers, Phill ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-developers] lack of buster entries in buildbot

2019-09-27 Thread John
On 9/26/19 7:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 26 September 2019 18:44:08 John wrote: By "dead" on 1-1-20 do you mean they will turn Python off? I have Debian 10 on this PC and 2.7.16 is still the default Python... Support for 2.7 is to be disabled. I'd imagine that implie

Re: [Emc-developers] lack of buster entries in buildbot

2019-09-27 Thread John
On 9/26/19 7:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 26 September 2019 18:44:08 John wrote: By "dead" on 1-1-20 do you mean they will turn Python off? I have Debian 10 on this PC and 2.7.16 is still the default Python... Support for 2.7 is to be disabled. I'd imagine that implie

Re: [Emc-developers] lack of buster entries in buildbot

2019-09-26 Thread John
I've seen a few attempts at converting to Python 3, dunno what the results ended up being. Sounds like a good brain challenge for me early in the morning when I'm sipping on my coffee, I'll see if I can get a branch off of master to run python 3. By "dead" on 1-1-20 do you mean they will turn

Re: [Emc-developers] Buildbot down?

2019-09-18 Thread John
? But the website for waterfall is unreachable so i don;t think that will fix the problem. Chris From: John Thornton Sent: September 17, 2019 6:19 PM To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Buildbot down? Did you try forcing a build? JT

Re: [Emc-developers] Buildbot down?

2019-09-17 Thread John Thornton
Did you try forcing a build? JT On 9/17/2019 1:12 PM, Chris Morley wrote: Builds have stopped as of the 13th it seems... Chris ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-developers] buster vs pi3b report

2019-08-30 Thread John
Hi Gene, git clone https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc.git the/directory/to/clone/to Probably similar to my Rpi4 instructions for raspian 10. http://gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/uspace/rpi4-emc.html JT On 8/30/19 1:13 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I found today, after finding the u-sd card

Re: [Emc-developers] Mesaflash docs

2019-08-09 Thread John
wrote: On Friday 09 August 2019 13:32:32 John Thornton wrote: No manpages in LinuxCNC because it's not included in LinuxCNC, or were you looking someplace else for manpages? JT The usual suspects John. /usr/share/man, but drew a blank. And I'd forgotten about the side effects of looking

Re: [Emc-developers] Mesaflash docs

2019-08-09 Thread John Thornton
No manpages in LinuxCNC because it's not included in LinuxCNC, or were you looking someplace else for manpages? JT On 8/9/2019 12:28 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 09 August 2019 12:54:06 John Thornton wrote: Yea we didn't have access to micges repo so I created a new one and gave Peter

Re: [Emc-developers] Mesaflash docs

2019-08-09 Thread John Thornton
Andy, I now host Mesaflash on my github account. The latest version is only found there. https://github.com/jethornton/mesaflash JT On 8/9/2019 10:21 AM, andy pugh wrote: Are there any online docs for Mesaflash? (And am I right in thinking that it is installed by default now?)

Re: [Emc-developers] my keyboard problem has returned

2019-08-07 Thread John
Yea, you gotta watch out for hospital food it can be lethal... and what a racket they have now. JT On 8/7/19 11:56 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: So I checked meself out and came home to see how I felt while taking care of my Dee. That and to get away from their coffee, that hospital stuff is

Re: [Emc-developers] Cylindrical Square - off topic

2019-08-02 Thread John
Too much coffee? That is very odd for sure... JT On 8/2/19 7:59 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Gentlemen, I found this on the floor in my office this morning. It was sitting in the corner on a shelf behind a toaster and a coffee pot. Both the toaster and the coffee pot - and one half of this

Re: [Emc-developers] Building LinuxCNC on Debian 10

2019-07-10 Thread John
, John Thornton wrote: I deleted yapps2-runtime from debian/control.top.in in the dev section as that is the only place grep can find yapps2-runtime and rebuilt. Now dev installs without complaining. I tested halcompile and it runs, is there anything else in dev besides halcompile? Hi JT

Re: [Emc-developers] Building LinuxCNC on Debian 10

2019-07-10 Thread John Thornton
I deleted yapps2-runtime from debian/control.top.in in the dev section as that is the only place grep can find yapps2-runtime and rebuilt. Now dev installs without complaining. I tested halcompile and it runs, is there anything else in dev besides halcompile? JT

Re: [Emc-developers] Building LinuxCNC on Debian 10

2019-07-10 Thread John Thornton
Thanks for sluthing that out Seb, someone one on the forum also said that gmoccapy imports vte but does not use it. JT On 7/10/2019 2:18 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 7/10/19 12:20 PM, Alec Ari via Emc-developers wrote: For python-vte, it's labelled "debports'" not "backports" but either

Re: [Emc-developers] Building LinuxCNC on Debian 10

2019-07-10 Thread John Thornton
AFAIK backporting is getting a package from a newer version of Debian into an older version. We have the opposite problem. JT On 7/10/2019 7:40 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 11:53, andy pugh wrote: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python-vte Suggests that is it

Re: [Emc-developers] Building LinuxCNC on Debian 10

2019-07-10 Thread John Thornton
So much for memory, can't even walk from the beer cave to the machine shop without forgetting something. It's yapps2-runtime that's not in Debian 10. The only place I see it is in debian/control.top.in in the dev section. JT On 7/10/2019 5:53 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at

Re: [Emc-developers] Building LinuxCNC on Debian 10

2019-07-10 Thread John Thornton
Let's see if I push the right reply button this time and reply to the list... Trying to install dev and yapps2 is not available so one more for the list. I've not looked to see where it is used yet. JT On 7/10/2019 5:53 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 03:31, Chris Morley

Re: [Emc-developers] Building LinuxCNC on Debian 10

2019-07-10 Thread John Thornton
From: John Thornton Sent: July 9, 2019 4:19 PM To: EMC developers Subject: [Emc-developers] Building LinuxCNC on Debian 10 I've been working on a Debian 10 setup and getting the preempt rt kernel is simple. However I ran into a couple of dependencies that can't be satisfied as they have been

[Emc-developers] Building LinuxCNC on Debian 10

2019-07-09 Thread John Thornton
I've been working on a Debian 10 setup and getting the preempt rt kernel is simple. However I ran into a couple of dependencies that can't be satisfied as they have been dropped from Debian 10. python-gtksourceview2 used by: configs/apps/gladevcp/by-widget/sourceview.demo

Re: [Emc-developers] Plasma User Information

2019-07-02 Thread John Thornton
because doing docs sucks : ) Chris From: John Thornton Sent: July 2, 2019 6:09 PM To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Plasma User Information It's my humble opinion that documents that are not about LinuxCNC like the Integrators

Re: [Emc-developers] Plasma User Information

2019-07-02 Thread John Thornton
because doing docs sucks : ) Chris From: John Thornton Sent: July 2, 2019 6:09 PM To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Plasma User Information It's my humble opinion that documents that are not about LinuxCNC like the Integrators

Re: [Emc-developers] Plasma User Information

2019-07-02 Thread John Thornton
wrote: On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 19:11, John Thornton wrote: It's my humble opinion that documents that are not about LinuxCNC like the Integrators Information document should not be in the main LinuxCNC document as it is far too big now. I would suggest adding it as a separate document in the same

Re: [Emc-developers] Plasma User Information

2019-07-02 Thread John Thornton
It's my humble opinion that documents that are not about LinuxCNC like the Integrators Information document should not be in the main LinuxCNC document as it is far too big now. I would suggest adding it as a separate document in the same manner as the Integrator Information document. I would

Re: [Emc-developers] Updates

2019-07-01 Thread John Morris
it easy to build this ugly, messy build environment on Docker Hub or my laptop, and use it to cross-build anywhere. Take a look at the the base image [3] and the companion build script [4] if you're curious. IMO it's an amazing hack (at least for its hairiness), but at the same t

Re: [Emc-developers] Updates

2019-06-29 Thread John Thornton
If the buildbot is not down it usually shows up in a few hours. If the buildbot does not rebuild you can force it to build the docs with the following in the #linuxcnc-devel IRC channel. linuxcnc-build: force build --branch-2.8 2000.docs You can go to the buildbot waterfall page and see the

Re: [Emc-developers] Gmoccapy Documentation Links

2019-06-27 Thread John Thornton
Check that the document anchor is what you expect in the document. https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master/docs/asciidoc-markup.txt https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master/docs/src/gui/gmoccapy-hu.txt https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master/docs/src/gui/gmoccapy.txt

Re: [Emc-developers] Slightly wacky docs proposal

2019-06-11 Thread John Thornton
Changing every .txt to .adoc and renaming the submakefile fails to build. I pushed a branch github-docs with those changes if you want to take a look at it. JT On 6/11/2019 8:24 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 14:12, John Thornton wrote: Will the docs still build after

Re: [Emc-developers] Slightly wacky docs proposal

2019-06-11 Thread John Thornton
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 14:12, John Thornton wrote: Will the docs still build after changing the extension? Or does the doc building need changes as well? https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/3d67d4d2472f46db2dbc0c6a7d1b96e7b342fa7c/docs/src/Submakefile Seems to imply that every file is

Re: [Emc-developers] Slightly wacky docs proposal

2019-06-11 Thread John Thornton
Dang it I pressed the wrong reply button... Will the docs still build after changing the extension? Or does the doc building need changes as well? JT On 6/11/2019 7:20 AM, andy pugh wrote: If we were to rename all the .txt asciidoc files to .adoc then they would be automatically rendered in

Re: [Emc-developers] Merge Just One Commit Up

2019-06-04 Thread John Thornton
: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 14:45:28 -0500 From: John Thornton To: EMC developers Subject: [Emc-developers] Merge Just One Commit Up Message-ID:<21236f20-9c1c-944e-ab39-bed182e41...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed How do you merge just your special commit from 2.7

[Emc-developers] Merge Just One Commit Up

2019-06-03 Thread John Thornton
How do you merge just your special commit from 2.7 to 2.8 to master? I use git, git-gui, and gitkraken. Thanks JT ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Release planning

2019-05-31 Thread John Thornton
Some more repos of various GUI's in QtPyVCP https://github.com/jethornton/plasma_v2 https://github.com/jethornton/lathe_touch_v1 https://github.com/jethornton/mill_touch_v6 JT On 5/31/2019 9:04 AM, Moses McKnight wrote: I *think* QTVCP is not the same thing as QTPYVCP, and if you look at

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Release planning

2019-05-31 Thread John Thornton
QtPyVCP is a total standalone GUI that uses PyQt 5 and the python interface to build GUI's. It runs on Debian 9 and Lubuntu 18 and LinuxMint and any recent Debian based OS. The repo https://github.com/kcjengr/qtpyvcp The Docs https://qtpyvcp.kcjengr.com/ The Showcase

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Release planning

2019-05-30 Thread John Thornton
the changes from 2.7 to 2.8 You may be right about mailing list over IRC. Taking a few days to discuss something is probably not bad though. Moses On 5/30/19 8:26 AM, John Thornton wrote: Yep lets do it! What else has to be done to get the release out after creating the branch? I assume we need to have

Re: [Emc-developers] Release Platforms

2019-05-22 Thread John Thornton
I'm all for changing the Docs to point to something that does work in most cases and add the link to prior version to the archives section along with notes about what is broken. JT On 5/22/2019 8:16 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 13:58, John Thornton wrote: I'd say something

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