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

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Frank Mori Hess wrote:

> > 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.
>
And what is the TODO list to reach that goal? It would be nice to have
some sort of a roadmap on the Comedi web page, because now nobody except
you and David knows where the project is going.

I will have some summer interns again this year, so we could possibly
contribute to reaching the 1.0 :-)

Herman

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Received on 2003-04-12Z07:46:51