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Is this still actively maintained? #15

Closed ftjuh closed 1 year ago

ftjuh commented 2 years ago

Latest release to the library manager is v1.61 from 2020-06-30.

Latest AccelStepper version is v1.63 from 2022-06-30.

It would be nice to be able to install it from the library manager.

Thanks for your effort Jan

StefanL38 commented 1 year ago

Hi ftjuh,

in my humble opinion the stepper-library MobaTools is much better than AccelStepper. The MobaTools-library can be installed from the library-manager and it offers non-blocking step-pulse-creation "In the backround" With AccelStepper you have to accept one of two disadvantages:

disadvantage 1: driving the stepper-motor in a blocking way which means nothing else than driving the steppermotor can be done as long as the motor runs

disadvantage 2: keeping your main-loop looping really fast whenever you want to drive the steppermotor in a non-blocking way. The function run() has to be called 1000 times per second to make sure that the step-pulses are created right in time.

The MobaTools create the step-pulses "in the backround" with the help of a timer. This enables to start the stepper-motor and immitiately change over to executing other code while the step-pulses are created with the right timing.

ftjuh commented 1 year ago

I think you're mostly wrong. What you're saying is that MobaTools is better suited to your particular demands. Other users have other demands, e.g. avoiding timer or interrupt conflicts.

But this is not the point here.

You submitted this repo to the library manager, so I feel it is your obligation to keep this updated. If you are not willing to do so, fine. But then pull it from the library manager, to allow other to jump in and prevent users from using an outdated library.

Or even better, find someone who is willing to take over this repo. I'm not volunteering, but I can post to the AccelStepper google group on your behalf.

Edit: Oh my, I just realized that you are not the owner, but some random user who decided to take their discussion here. Please don't, it's not the right place.

Let's hope the repo owner will someday show up here.

waspinator commented 1 year ago

thanks @ftjuh for reminding me to update the library. It's now at 1.64.