[gsoc] Question regarding GSOC 2012

James Goppert james.goppert at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 19:01:02 CEST 2012


I recently began the port of arkscicos (now arktoolbox) to xcos. So far
this has just consisted of some renaming, and putting the skeleton xcos
toolbox in the git repo. I imagine that this will be quite straightforward
since most of the important block code is written in C++ and can be added
to the C++ library, this leaves simple function calls like
interface->send(u) etc for the xcos/scicos interface functions. I will
begin this refactoring soon. Peter, what is your status, I want to make
sure I collaborate with you for the port.

New project page: https://github.com/arktools/arktoolbox


P.S. The latest bug fixes to xcos in 5.4.0-alpha-1 are very helpful. I
think now that xcos is more stable I may shift my primary development focus
to xcos. Great work!

-James

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <
sylvestre.ledru at scilab-enterprises.com> wrote:

> Le lundi 26 mars 2012 à 17:07 -0400, th3 flyboy a écrit :
> > Alright, thanks, I'm going to write up my application over the next
> > few days, I'll hopefully have it in within a few days. Also, thanks
> > James, I appreciate the permission and the offer of help. As for the
> > Scicoslab sources, I may need some pointers in porting from it, as I'm
> > not familiar with either API at the moment. I'll have to get more
> > familiar with the APIs a bit later.
> Actually, the scicoslab API is complex, old and deprecated. Scilab has
> the same one but has been replaced by API_Scilab
> See the advantages over stack1,2,3 API here:
> http://help.scilab.org/docs/5.3.3/en_US/api_scilab.html
>
> > One question I do have to ask however is about the GSOC requirements
> > specifically compiling the code and the banner. Where and when would I
> > send the screen caps of that stuff to?
> To me please.
>
>
>
> Sylvestre
>
> > Thanks,
> > Peter
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Sylvestre Ledru
> > <sylvestre.ledru at scilab-enterprises.com> wrote:
> >         Hello James,
> >
> >         Thanks for the information.
> >
> >         Peter, please note that Scicoslab sources are not fully
> >         available
> >         (closed sources) but this should not prevent you from doing
> >         the port.
> >
> >         Sylvestre
> >
> >
> >         Le dimanche 25 mars 2012 à 19:01 -0400, James Goppert a
> >         écrit :
> >         > Here is the link to the current
> >         > repository https://github.com/arktools/arkscicos (oooark was
> >         renamed,
> >         > and the sourceforge project is no longer being updated,
> >         moved to
> >         > github). I would port arkscicos to scilab myself, but
> >         talking my
> >         > Professor into letting me do GSoC is doubtful. I will
> >         definitely help
> >         > you out if you decide to help port it to scilab. I am
> >         currently
> >         > finishing up the arkscicos windows installer. So it is
> >         already
> >         > x-platform.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > I've detailed my cross-compilation procedure
> >         > here: https://github.com/jgoppert/jsbsim/wiki/Compiling
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > The communication with flightgear is being done with the
> >         latest
> >         > simgear library. This allows externalFDM packest to be sent.
> >         I'm also
> >         > working on getting multi-player packets to send to the
> >         flightgear
> >         > servers. All the communication code is bundled in this
> >         > library: https://github.com/arktools/arkcomm.  ArkScicos
> >         also has
> >         > hardware in the loop capabilities using the MAVLink protocol
> >         and 3D
> >         > graphics built-in using openscenegraph. The openscenegraph
> >         graphics
> >         > are bundled in https://github.com/arktools/arkosg
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > For more video, see my channel.
> >         http://www.youtube.com/user/jgoppert
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > -James
> >         >
> >         > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Peter C.
> >         <th3flyboy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         >         On 3/25/2012 4:31 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> >         >         > Le dimanche 25 mars 2012 à 15:51 -0400, Peter C. a
> >         écrit :
> >         >         >> On 3/25/2012 3:27 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> >         >         >>> Hello Peter,
> >         >         >>>
> >         >         > [...]
> >         >         >
> >         >         >>> Sylvestre
> >         >         >>>
> >         >         >>>
> >         >         >> Alright, I'll see what I can do, and I think I
> >         fixed my
> >         >         name not showing
> >         >         >> up properly. As a side question, should I decide
> >         that I'm
> >         >         not ready to
> >         >         >> implement anything math related, would an HLA
> >         interface
> >         >         make a good
> >         >         >> backup project? I have been reading over the
> >         Flightgear
> >         >         forums, and they
> >         >         >> apparently want to work toward using HLA to
> >         communicate
> >         >         between
> >         >         >> applications that interface with Flightgear, so I
> >         was
> >         >         thinking that may
> >         >         >> be a good backup project to work on that would
> >         still be
> >         >         somewhat
> >         >         >> related, even if I'm not working with the main
> >         >         mathematics/physics
> >         >         >> functionality. HLA would probably also open a lot
> >         of doors
> >         >         to being able
> >         >         >> to interface with software, especially
> >         simulations, in
> >         >         general.
> >         >         > Well, there is a
> >         >         > http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooark/ based on a
> >         fork of
> >         >         Scilab. The
> >         >         > port to Scilab & Xcos should be pretty doable. It
> >         would be a
> >         >         good GSoC.
> >         >         > I am sure the author (c/c of this email) would be
> >         >         interested.
> >         >         >
> >         >         > See also:
> >         >         > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wQVrM5SL2o&fe
> >         >         >
> >         >         > Sylvestre
> >         >         >
> >         >         >
> >         >         >
> >         >
> >         >         Alright, thanks for bringing that up, I've heard
> >         about it, but
> >         >         haven't
> >         >         messed with it much, it does look very interesting
> >         however. If
> >         >         the
> >         >         author (who I've also c/c(ed) this email to) has no
> >         >         objections, I'll see
> >         >         about writing up a proposal to port it over for
> >         GSOC.
> >         >
> >         >         Thanks,
> >         >         Peter
> >         >
> >         >
> >
> >
> >         --
> >         -----------------------------
> >         Sylvestre Ledru
> >         Operation manager
> >         Community manager
> >         -----------------------------
> >         Scilab Enterprises
> >         http://www.scilab-enterprises.com/
> >         http://www.scilab.org/
> >         -----------------------------
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> -----------------------------
> Sylvestre Ledru
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> Community manager
> -----------------------------
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> http://www.scilab.org/
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