From: Marc M. <ma...@me...> - 2012-10-28 15:17:46
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:49:51AM -0400, Michelle Dupuis wrote: > Does your serial device /dev/XXXX survive the disconnect from MH? If so, can you send data to/from the device after MH disconnects? This will not work. An open USB serial port (assuming it's USB) will change port numbers after disconnection if it was opened when it was disconnected. > If yes, then the problem goes back to MH. Perhaps you need to script a reload of MH if your serial port disconnects. That's what I do. > (I'm somewhat new to MH, but good on the Linux side). As for the > group...it feels pretty lonely in here sometimes! There was discussion of > moving the project to GIT and creating a cleaned up Wiki. That would go Problem is that most people who use mh do not have the time to actively work on it, so the project is in survival mode, but that's about it. Whoever wanted to do the big cleanup/rewrite with most drivers ripped out has not yet delivered anything git-tree wise. > a long way to breathing some life into the project. MH seems like a very > cool project...but the wiki & svn is preventing growth I believe....(along > with UI issues) wiki is fine, it can be editted (and it is). svn is not as fine, it requires a lot of trust into new people offering to edit the code, and if anything they do is wrong, everyone suffers. This is where git is a better choice. No one really stops you or anyone else from importing mh into github and publishing your own changes. The way I see it, it's not a technical problem, just a problem of lack of manpower. Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ |