Plans for future development and maintenance of libnxt?

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Set of primitives for working with LEGO Mindstorm NXT brick

http://code.google.com/p/libnxt/

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Plans for future development and maintenance of libnxt? #3

Open petterreinholdtsen opened 3 years ago

petterreinholdtsen commented 3 years ago

Dear developer,

I wonder if you could say something about your future plans for developing and maintaining libnxt? The background is that the original source and author of libnxt seem to be missing these days, and I wonder as one of the Debian maintainers of the package if it is time to locate a new upstream source.

schodet commented 3 years ago

Hello,

I have started a fork on https://git.ni.fr.eu.org/libnxt.git/, starting from the HalfHour repository which was exported from code.google.com/p/libnxt with the full history. There was some work from David Anderson which were not included in the 0.3 release.

I have added fixes from various places and changed the build system so that it’s easier to package the result.

My future plans:

improve the user interface and propose to reboot the NXT in SAM-BA automatically,
add support to talk to a running NXT,
migrate to libusb 1.0.

rvs commented 3 years ago

Hey @petterreinholdtsen -- I don't have plans to maintain this beyond my [very] occasional use so perhaps what @schodet is offering would be more reasonable.

@schodet -- you may be interested in a few commits I've done here -- should I send a PR to something of yours?

petterreinholdtsen commented 3 years ago

[Roman V Shaposhnik]

Hey @petterreinholdtsen -- I don't have plans to maintain this beyond my [very] occasional use so perhaps what @schodet is offering would be more reasonable.

As one of the Debian maintainers of libnxt, I just want one authorative source for libnxt we all can agree on as the focal point for patches and improvements, so the libnxt in Debian is the same as the libnxt other distributions and most other users are using.

@schodet -- you may be interested in a few commits I've done here -- should I send a PR to something of yours?

This sound like you propose to move the authorative source of libnxt to the repository of @schodet. If so, I suspect Debian should switch too.

-- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

schodet commented 3 years ago

I have done the migration to libusb 1.0, so it should build on any recent distribution. I have also the fix to detach the linux driver.

If you have other changes, you can email me your patch, or pull request, or you can use the github mirror if you prefer github way: https://github.com/schodet/libnxt