Re: Task communication

Herman Bruyninckx <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Feb 2006 11:46:05 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups gmane.science.robotics.orocos.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Peter Soetens wrote:

[...]
> The reason why the 'TaskContext' is not fully functional is that it was first
> only a 'helper' class for the Orocos 'Control Kernel' components. Now it
> grows to get its own 'component' interface, such that it takes over these
> 'Control Kernel' Components, and hopefully, we can skip the Control Kernel
> altogether, only using 'robot control components' which are in effect
> TaskContexts. (See also a draft document here about using TaskContexts:
> <http://people.mech.kuleuven.be/~psoetens/orocos/doc/latest/orocos-task-context.html> )
>
> Take a look at the attachment, and start from that file to add functionality
> as described in the document above.

We still don't succeed in explaining these things is a really "user
friendly" way. Also the new version your mention above is too difficult,
since it doesn't start with explaining what user problems it solves, and
since it mixex "user manual" with "developers manual" with "did you know
that..." kind of information and with "historical remarks" and with....

Let's sit together and work _hard_ on this problem...

Herman

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