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Aw: converting the sockets and instrument-control packages to mercurial
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Stefan Mahr |
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Aw: converting the sockets and instrument-control packages to mercurial |
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Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:57:46 +0200 (CEST) |
> I'm converting the instrument-control package to a mercurial
> repository. I'm thinking of keeping the instrument-control and sockets
> packages in the same repository. The reason behind this is that the
> functionality of the sockets package is part of the instrument control
> toolbox in matlab, so the two packages should be merged anyway. In
> keeping the history of both together now, means it will be easier to
> conserve their history when such merge is performed.
>
> Does this decision seems reasonable to everybody else?
The sockets package is a straight interface to raw sockets. AFAIK Matlab has no
direct interface to raw sockets. It makes not much sense to me to merge
something from sockets to instrument-control, since instrument-control needs
some higher level extensions to be compatible to matlab.
Stefan