Re: Design of instructions for Counter/Timer subdevices...

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On Friday 11 April 2003 03:35 pm, Herman Bruyninckx wrote:
> >
> > The real issue here is that comedi has achieved a state of eternal beta.
> > What we really need is to reach 1.0 and then we can branch off the stable
> > version and start making tweaks to improve the API.  What might help is
> > to clearly define exactly what needs to be done for 1.0.  Maybe through
> > using the bugzilla, and assigning various bugs to comedi/comedlib version
> > 1.0?
>
> I don't see the added value of moving the discussion away to the
> bugzilla... Moreover, what I said has nothing to do with "bugs", it's
> an API and design issue.

Herman,

I was just suggesting that clearly defined '1.0 goals' should be available 
somewhere, and bugzilla seemed like a good place.  Bugzilla is appropriate 
for more than just bugs.  The suggestion was really more aimed at Dave than a 
direct reply to you, sorry about that.

> I'm not pretending at all that my suggestions are good. They are
> nothing more than bringing David's own suggestions back into
> the spotlights, trying to put a step forward.

I'm not saying your suggestions are bad, I'm (in part) trying to explain why 
they are probably not going to be implemented in the immediate future.  Comedi
being in beta means the API is essentially frozen (with some exceptions, like 
extensions using INSN_CONFIG).  So while I might agree with a suggestion like 
replacing chanspec integers with structs, I don't see it happening until 
after we reach 1.0 and are more free to play with new ideas for the API.  So, 
I guess what I'm saying is I'm most interested in ideas (and work of course) 
that will get us to 1.0 as soon as possible.

- -- 
Frank

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Received on 2003-04-11Z21:52:25