Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit and LinuxCNC

2014-11-02 Thread Dave Cole
Well.. I don't think it is quite this bleak. LinuxCNC has really not had any truly defined "direction or plan" for the years I have been using it (5 or 6?). There have been groups of people who have pushed in different directions for various reasons, but I'm not aware of any truly "defined pl

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit and LinuxCNC

2014-11-02 Thread John Alexander Stewart
Hmmm. Reminds me of a company I worked for; two groups who could not talk. One group (mine) was spending a pot of money (about a million bucks, 1980s money) to keep an old computing system going, the other wanted to spend that same pot of money on the next generation of computers. I asked for, an

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit and LinuxCNC

2014-11-02 Thread David Armstrong
or put simple a big mess rather than a concerted effort on one my thoughts are that machinekit has gone the 3d printing route and forgot about real machines doing real work but with an attempt to bring things up to date like nml etc . and linuxcnc folks have lost the plot in the real world , so we

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit and LinuxCNC

2014-11-02 Thread Jon Elson
On 11/02/2014 09:18 AM, John Alexander Stewart wrote: > Can someone tell me what the eventual plans for Machinekit and LinuxCNC is? > > Are the two forks going to come together again? > > I really like LinuxCNC, and I really like the idea of small, embedded CNC > controllers, so I'm just wondering.

[Emc-users] Machinekit and LinuxCNC

2014-11-02 Thread John Alexander Stewart
Can someone tell me what the eventual plans for Machinekit and LinuxCNC is? Are the two forks going to come together again? I really like LinuxCNC, and I really like the idea of small, embedded CNC controllers, so I'm just wondering. (I have been loosely following the machine kit google group; ma