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python3 library designed to make developing RobotPy-based code easier!
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Refactor physics component into robotpy-wpilib-utilities? #36

Closed computer-whisperer closed 8 years ago

computer-whisperer commented 8 years ago

The physics subsystem here could be improved, and I think it would be beneficial to allow access to physics.py from within user robot code. However, physics.py relies upon the physics functions bundled with pyfrc, and won't run on a robot. I would like to split those methods out of pyfrc and build an improved physics engine in robotpy-wpilib-utilities.

Thoughts?

virtuald commented 8 years ago

Sure, have at it. I was hoping to reimplement the physics stuff for the websim in javascript anyways, so feel free to do what you think makes sense.

computer-whisperer commented 8 years ago

I have most of the engine built, and just need to get it properly integrated with pyfrc. Do you think keeping backwards compatibility is particularly important? If so, I could work something into pyfrc to detect the difference between "physics.py" and something like "dynamics.py" (The newer version)

virtuald commented 8 years ago

Sorry, was on vacation.

I think if it's not that much effort, I'd like to mostly keep backwards compat, unless there's a compelling reason not to.