Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Thoughts about the GCS

[Gautier Hattenberger]

Hi all,

We have enough Ocaml users at Enac for the support/bug fix of the GCS 
and the other paparazzi agents, and we will do it, you don't have to 
worry about that. Of course, we would be very pleased if other people 
from the community tried to learn Ocaml to help on the improvement of 
the ground segment. But as Poine recalled, the programming language of 
the GCS is independent of the rest of the system. Pascal and I gave to 
our student a project for the design of a new GCS in Java. It is only a 
backbone, but I can share the code with the community if the result is 
satisfying. It will probably take years before having a GCS as 
operational as Pascal's, so I don't think we should hurry.

Gautier

Le 10/06/2010 17:09, Cédric Marzer a écrit :
> Well,
> My first reaction is that it is a common mistake to think that because
> something looks a bit difficult to understand at first sight, it is a reason
> to redo it from start differently.
> Sometime it is...and sometime it isn't...
> Ocaml seems to be relatively widely used in France for education, research
> and...aeronautical stuff...
> So before we trash everything that was done so far, it would be a good idea
> to wait a little to know if someone will continue developping and
> maintaining the gcs in ocaml (someone from the ENAC or someone on the list).
> I am very happy with the way the gcs is working so far and I see no reason
> for changing it unless there is really none taking care of the code or at
> least understanding it...
> Do I want to learn ocaml ? ...hum that is a good question that I leave open
> ;-)
>
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