Re: RS232/Serial Comms

[Andy Adler]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 28-Oct-2006, Stefan Mahr wrote:
> | John W. Eaton schrieb:
> | > On 27-Oct-2006, Stefan Mahr wrote:
> | >
> | > | You are right. Any other solution?
> | >
> | > The obvious thing is a freely redistributable replacement for the
> | > Visa32 library.  But I would guess that you were looking for something
> | > that would be easier to do.
> | >
> |
> | Of course :) Maybe with a server/client structure with comunication over
> | a socket?
>
> I'm not a big fan of technical gymnastics to avoid the terms of the
> GPL.  However, see
>
>  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation
>
> for more info.

I think there is a distinction between technical gymnastics and
ideas that are somehow reasonable.

In this case a client-server model would actually
provide some very nice advantages - making it possible, for example,
to do remote control of the instruments.

At any rate, a solution to allow octave to do this kind of interfacing
would be really useful, so it is important to have this discussion
about what solutions are reasonable.

--
Andy Adler