Re: Mini meeting Toulouse 22-23 april / Execution Engine

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Anthony Mallet wrote:

> | Terminology is indeed _so_ important :-)
> 
> Yes. While reading the last few emails from Christian, I had the strong
> feeling that we really want to achieve the same thing.
> 
> I think we have to decouple the terms of "functional" robotics components
> and "object oriented" components.

Any suggestions? I must confess I have no real clue as to what you
mean exactly :-)

> I guess we also have to define what a "task" is: something /on top/
> of "functional components", which can also have exec engines and so on.

Indeed! That's one of the things I want to talk about in Toulouse...
The more structure we can bring in this complex matter, the better,
because it will make the Orocos design cleaner and hence more portable
and understandable. Which are two of my personal favorite goals :-)

[...]
> Basically, I think the only (but important!) thing that GenoM does (in
> addition to the CORBA spec of components) is to structure the internals
> of a component (exec engine/codels/comm) and define two class of
> component developer instead of only one.

That's an interesting view point... One developer is the one who builds
the architecture; the other builds the application? Or did you have
another subdivision in mind?

In your figures I have the impression that the Execution Control at
the User level is (or could be) _architecturally_ the same as the
Execution Engine inside the component. But maybe I read the figures
differently than you...

Herman

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