NBC/NXC Spec and F14 RPMs

[Martin Langhoff]

[ I am not on robotics@ so not sure if this will go through ]

Scratching my own itch - spec at

   http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/nbc/

I see jspaleta was meaning to package this. Feel free to take it for
Fedora if it's any good.

cheers,


m
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[Tim Niemueller]

On 31.12.2010 05:50, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>  [ I am not on robotics@ so not sure if this will go through ]
>
>  Scratching my own itch - spec at
>
>      http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/nbc/
>
>  I see jspaleta was meaning to package this. Feel free to take it for
>  Fedora if it's any good. 
Interesting! Would you mind to file a review request and maintain the 
package in Fedora as a packager?

Regards,
	Tim

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     Tim Niemueller <tim(a)niemueller.de&gt;      www.niemueller.de
=================================================================
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[Martin Langhoff]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Tim Niemueller <tim(a)niemueller.de&gt; wrote:
>  Interesting! Would you mind to file a review request and maintain
> the
>  package in Fedora as a packager? 
Unfortunately, I can't. Too many responsibilities at the moment (OLPC,
1 year old son...).

I do hope to submit some patches to TurtleBlocks (formerly known as
TurtleArt), which works nicely in sugar (and outside of sugar too, all
you need is gtk), to make this excellent GUI programming environment
be able to export NXC code. And I plan to add enough glue so that
there's a "put in my NXT brick" button.

If this works well, we'll have a very high quality graphical
programming env for NXT.

Consider

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fTmGyLerUL4/TQAkPGOPjZI/AAAAAAAAAiw/YGL6KvEGt0A...

vs the "NXT-G" (the Lego-provided grapghical programming env) column in

http://www.nebomusic.net/rosettastone.html


m
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 - ask interesting questions
 - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
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[Rich Mattes]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin(a)laptop.org&gt; wrote:

>  On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Tim Niemueller
> <tim(a)niemueller.de&gt; wrote:
>  > Interesting! Would you mind to file a review request and maintain the
>  > package in Fedora as a packager?
>
>  Unfortunately, I can't. Too many responsibilities at the moment (OLPC,
>  1 year old son...).
>
>  I do hope to submit some patches to TurtleBlocks (formerly known as
>  TurtleArt), which works nicely in sugar (and outside of sugar too, all
>  you need is gtk), to make this excellent GUI programming environment
>  be able to export NXC code. And I plan to add enough glue so that
>  there's a "put in my NXT brick" button.
>
>  If this works well, we'll have a very high quality graphical
>  programming env for NXT.
>
>  Consider
>
>
>
> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fTmGyLerUL4/TQAkPGOPjZI/AAAAAAAAAiw/YGL6KvEGt0A...
>
>  vs the "NXT-G" (the Lego-provided grapghical programming env) column in
>
>  http://www.nebomusic.net/rosettastone.html
>
>
>  m
>  
Hi,

I will try to give this package a look and get it into shape for submission.
 It looks fairly straightforward, and most of the legwork is done.  I should
be able to find some free time in the next couple of weeks to work on it.

Rich

[Martin Langhoff]

Jeff, listmembers,

ok, if anyone's happy to co-maintain, I'll post the spec for review.

Is anyone at Fudcon? (I think jeff is) I'm here with a lego nxt and
interested in hacking on this.

cheers -


m

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin(a)laptop.org&gt; wrote:
>  On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Tim Niemueller
> <tim(a)niemueller.de&gt; wrote:
> > Interesting! Would you mind to file a review request and maintain the
> > package in Fedora as a packager?
>
>  Unfortunately, I can't. Too many responsibilities at the moment (OLPC,
>  1 year old son...).
>
>  I do hope to submit some patches to TurtleBlocks (formerly known as
>  TurtleArt), which works nicely in sugar (and outside of sugar too, all
>  you need is gtk), to make this excellent GUI programming environment
>  be able to export NXC code. And I plan to add enough glue so that
>  there's a "put in my NXT brick" button.
>
>  If this works well, we'll have a very high quality graphical
>  programming env for NXT.
>
>  Consider
>
>
> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fTmGyLerUL4/TQAkPGOPjZI/AAAAAAAAAiw/YGL6KvEGt0A...
>
>  vs the "NXT-G" (the Lego-provided grapghical programming env) column in
>
>  http://www.nebomusic.net/rosettastone.html
>
>
>  m
>  --
>   martin(a)laptop.org -- School Server Architect
>   - ask interesting questions
>   - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
>   - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
>  


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 - ask interesting questions
 - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
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[Rich Mattes]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin(a)laptop.org&gt; wrote:

>  Jeff, listmembers,
>
>  ok, if anyone's happy to co-maintain, I'll post the spec for review.
>
>  Is anyone at Fudcon? (I think jeff is) I'm here with a lego nxt and
>  interested in hacking on this.
>
>  cheers -
>
>
>  m
>
>  
I did spend a little time the other week looking at the specfile you posted,
and I did have a couple of minor corrections.  If you want, I can post it
for review when I get home this afternoon, and sign you on as a
co-maintainer.  If you'd prefer to see the review through, I can give you
the changes I made, and let you put the spec up for review.

Rich

[Jef Spaleta]

I'm definitely not a Fudcon. I just came off the ice in Antarctica
haven't actually made it home yet for a variety of reasons.

-jef

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin(a)laptop.org&gt; wrote:
>  Jeff, listmembers,
>
>  ok, if anyone's happy to co-maintain, I'll post the spec for review.
>
>  Is anyone at Fudcon? (I think jeff is) I'm here with a lego nxt and
>  interested in hacking on this.
>
>  cheers -
>
>
>  m
>
>  On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin(a)laptop.org&gt; wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Tim Niemueller <tim(a)niemueller.de&gt; wrote:
> >> Interesting! Would you mind to file a review request and maintain the
> >> package in Fedora as a packager?
> >
> > Unfortunately, I can't. Too many responsibilities at the moment (OLPC,
> > 1 year old son...).
> >
> > I do hope to submit some patches to TurtleBlocks (formerly known as
> > TurtleArt), which works nicely in sugar (and outside of sugar too, all
> > you need is gtk), to make this excellent GUI programming environment
> > be able to export NXC code. And I plan to add enough glue so that
> > there's a "put in my NXT brick" button.
> >
> > If this works well, we'll have a very high quality graphical
> > programming env for NXT.
> >
> > Consider
> >
> >
> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fTmGyLerUL4/TQAkPGOPjZI/AAAAAAAAAiw/YGL6KvEGt0A...
> >
> > vs the "NXT-G" (the Lego-provided grapghical programming env) column in
> >
> > http://www.nebomusic.net/rosettastone.html
> >
> >
> > m
> > --
> >  martin(a)laptop.org -- School Server Architect
> >  - ask interesting questions
> >  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
> >  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
> >
>
>
>
>  --
>   martin(a)laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC
>   - ask interesting questions
>   - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
>   - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
>

[Rich Mattes]

On 01/29/2011 03:36 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>  Jeff, listmembers,
>
>  ok, if anyone's happy to co-maintain, I'll post the spec for review.
>
>  Is anyone at Fudcon? (I think jeff is) I'm here with a lego nxt and
>  interested in hacking on this.
>
>  cheers -
>
>
>  m
>  
As promised, I've uploaded my modified specfile/SRPM.  You can find it 
both at:

http://rmattes.fedorapeople.org/RPMS/nbc

I can submit this for review if you don't want to, otherwise feel free 
to use my changes my changes.

Rich

[Martin Langhoff]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Rich Mattes <richmattes(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  http://rmattes.fedorapeople.org/RPMS/nbc 
Great. There's an improvement I think is important to include: we need
to install the same udev rules file (and groupadd) that nxt_python
carries --

There are a few options on that track - discussion at
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-January/148269.html

cheers,


m
-- 
 martin(a)laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC
 - ask interesting questions
 - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
 - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff

[Martin Langhoff]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Rich Mattes <richmattes(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  http://rmattes.fedorapeople.org/RPMS/nbc
>
>  I can submit this for review if you don't want to, otherwise feel free to
>  use my changes my changes. 
Hi Rich!

Did you submit this one for review? I'm happy to be co-maintainer (can
we both get added?)

Also --

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Marcus Wanner <marcusw(a)cox.net&gt;
Date: Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:59 PM
Subject: NXT-Python v2.1.0 Released
To: nxt-python(a)googlegroups.com
Cc: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff(a)gmail.com&gt;


Hi all. NXT-Python 2.1.0 was released earlier today. There have been a
number of improvements since 2.0.x. From the Versions wiki page:

"Added multithreading capability, support for 2 new HiTechnic sensors,
hostname parameter in in scripts, silent mode in nxt.locator module,
alpharex example, and cnc example. Tweaked the digital sensor code for
2x faster sampling on USB (Bluetooth is still slow)."

Which about sums it up. Also, I have decided to change things so that
the PyPI packages do include the examples directory and install.bat.
This is for consistency's sake. Everyone update and look for problems!

This project as a whole is doing very well. Many thanks to everyone who
contributed to the code, wiki, or mailing list and of course those who
reported bugs.

Oh, and migpics: Use this version for your pancake maker. It has
improved multithreading support.

Marcus Wanner





m
-- 
 martin(a)laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC
 - ask interesting questions
 - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
 - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff

[Rich Mattes]

On 02/14/2011 02:15 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>  On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Rich
> Mattes<richmattes(a)gmail.com>  wrote:
> > http://rmattes.fedorapeople.org/RPMS/nbc
> >
> > I can submit this for review if you don't want to, otherwise feel free to
> > use my changes my changes.
>  Hi Rich!
>
>  Did you submit this one for review? I'm happy to be co-maintainer (can
>  we both get added?)
>  
Sorry about that.  I was waiting for feedback from you to see if you 
wanted to post the review.  I've gone ahead and done so, you can find it 
at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677496

I'd be happy to add you as a comaintainer once the package is accepted.

Rich

>  Also --
>
>  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>  From: Marcus Wanner<marcusw(a)cox.net>
>  Date: Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:59 PM
>  Subject: NXT-Python v2.1.0 Released
>  To: nxt-python(a)googlegroups.com
>  Cc: Martin Langhoff<martin.langhoff(a)gmail.com>
>
>
>  Hi all. NXT-Python 2.1.0 was released earlier today. There have been a
>  number of improvements since 2.0.x. From the Versions wiki page:
>
>  "Added multithreading capability, support for 2 new HiTechnic sensors,
>  hostname parameter in in scripts, silent mode in nxt.locator module,
>  alpharex example, and cnc example. Tweaked the digital sensor code for
>  2x faster sampling on USB (Bluetooth is still slow)."
>
>  Which about sums it up. Also, I have decided to change things so that
>  the PyPI packages do include the examples directory and install.bat.
>  This is for consistency's sake. Everyone update and look for problems!
>
>  This project as a whole is doing very well. Many thanks to everyone who
>  contributed to the code, wiki, or mailing list and of course those who
>  reported bugs.
>
>  Oh, and migpics: Use this version for your pancake maker. It has
>  improved multithreading support.
>
>  Marcus Wanner
>
>
>
>
>
>  m

[Martin Langhoff]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Rich Mattes <richmattes(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Sorry about that.  I was waiting for feedback from you to see if you
> wanted
>  to post the review.  I've gone ahead and done so, you can find it at
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677496
>
>  I'd be happy to add you as a comaintainer once the package is accepted. 
Hi Rich!

Has the review progressed? I don't think I have the karma or
experience to be the reviewer. Anyway, I've just filed a review
request for a trivial lego-udevrules
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689961 so that nbc and
nxt_python can coexist...

Happy to comaintain, anytime :-)

cheers,


m
-- 
 martin(a)laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC
 - ask interesting questions
 - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
 - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff

[Rich Mattes]

On 03/22/2011 05:24 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>  On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Rich
> Mattes<richmattes(a)gmail.com>  wrote:
> > Sorry about that.  I was waiting for feedback from you to see if you wanted
> > to post the review.  I've gone ahead and done so, you can find it at
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677496
> >
> > I'd be happy to add you as a comaintainer once the package is accepted.
>  Hi Rich!
>
>  Has the review progressed? I don't think I have the karma or
>  experience to be the reviewer. Anyway, I've just filed a review
>  request for a trivial lego-udevrules
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689961 so that nbc and
>  nxt_python can coexist...
>
>  Happy to comaintain, anytime :-)
>
>  cheers,
>
>
>  m 
Hi Martin,

There have been a few comments on the package, but nobody has picked up 
the review yet.  These review requests take time, especially if you're 
not actively soliciting for reviewers.  I may have time to solicit for a 
review swap sometime soon, but until then I'll have to wait and see if 
anyone picks it up.

Once lego-udevrules gets approved, I'll be happy to edit nbc to require 
it instead of providing its own udev rule.

Rich