[Scilab-Dev] Arduino ATOM on Scilab 5.5.2 under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

[Samuel Gougeon]

Le 09/04/2017 à 19:27, Nikolay Strelkov a écrit :
> Dear Scilab users!
>
> Recently I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, it has Scilab 5.5.2 in 
> repositories <http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/scilab>.
>
> I planned to use it with Arduino Uno board, so I tried to install 
> arduino toolbox (ATOMS) with
> -->atomsInstall('arduino')
> atomsInstallList: The package arduino is not available.
>  !--error 10000
>
> at line      51 of function atomsError called by :
> at line      76 of function atomsInstallList called by :
> at line     233 of function atomsInstall called by :
> atomsInstall('arduino')
>
> so I can't install it.
>
> I can't understand why this toolbox is not available 
> <https://atoms.scilab.org/?order=&direction=&key=arduino&title=on&platform=&scilab_supported_version=5.5>. 
>
> It has huge free-software popularization and educational potential. 
> Isn't it?

I am afraid that this rationale does not provide time to authors and 
maintainers, that are certainly already convinced: 
https://atoms.scilab.org/toolboxes/arduino/1.3
Moreover:
http://mailinglists.scilab.org/AMPL-toolbox-tp4036093p4036122.html
/Apr 03, 2017; 8:14am Clément David-3
"FYI currently there is no planned work to port external toolboxes by 
ESI (formerly S/E). "//
/...

I am afraid that does not help a lot. Just kill your hope, or take your 
keyboard and do the job.
:/
Samuel

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