Re: Octave in Google Summer of Code 2013 / Low Level I/O

[Stefan Mahr]

Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Stefan Mahr <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Juan Pablo Carbajal:
>>> I think we need to prioritize the Agora project...anyways I updated
>>> the low level I/O entry
>>>
>>> http://wiki.octave.org/Summer_of_Code_Project_Ideas#Low-Level_I.2FO
>>>
>>> @Andrius: Would you have time to mentor a student? Who else can do it.
>>> My knowledge here is really low!
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I announced my extensions to instrument control several times here. The
>> work for basic vxi11, gpib, usbtmc and scpi (tcp) is mostly done.
>>
>> Please be so kind to review it or grant me access to OF svn.
>>
>> Actual source is hosted at
>> https://github.com/dac922/octave-instrument-control
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Stefan
> 
> Hi Stefan, sorry if this got lost. The mailing list is not the better
> place for this kind of things, better the bug/feature tracker.
> 
> Anyways, the code looks good but I cannot test it (I will try to get
> GPIB hardware this week).
> @Andrius: Could you evaluate any other part of the code?
> 
> @Carnë: I think if stefan is planing to maintin this code we better
> give him access to the svn.
> 
> @Stefan: Do you hvae demo/tutorials somewhere exemplifying the use of
> your classes?
> 
> Cheers
> 

I already add an example for tcp at
http://wiki.octave.org/Instrument_control

For USBTMC and GPIB you need hardware.

For VXI11 it could be easy to create a simple test server, but I didn't
looked deeper to it yet.


Andrius Sutas wrote:
> Also, I remember there was a big rant regards the licensing of these
> extensions, which resulted in OF not being able to adopt them, or am
> I mistaken?

Yes, there was a really big rant. Sadly it had *nothing* to do with my
contribution. Everything is full GPL (or public domain for VXI11 rpc).


Stefan