Re: [myhdl-list] Status update

[Angel E. <ang...@gm...>]

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Jan Decaluwe <ja...@ja...> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I haven't been able to track all recent activity here for two reasons.
>
> First, in the past months I have been working intensively on a very
> interesting design project (also involving MyHDL).
>
> Second, I have not yet given up on APP :-) and I have given it
> a lot of attention.
>
> The project has been taped-out now. I'm preparing for a new one
> (also involving MyHDL) but there will be some time left to make
> progress on MyHDL itself. I will start by catching up with the
> posts here.
>
> Regarding APP, I not really happy with how it works out so far.
> Consider my last post:
>
> http://www.programmableplanet.com/author.asp?section_id=2438&doc_id=252295
>
> It think it makes a strong and clear case for Python, but from the
> response my feeling is people still just don't get it, or are
> not willing to get it. For example, I spent a lot of effort
> in the comment section, not show to why Python is good choice
> to write reference models, but why reference models are a
> good idea in the first place. And apparently I didn't succeed!
> It's just so tiresome at times.
>
> Anyway, I have an even stronger post ready, and we'll see.
>
> Jan

Hi Jan,

glad that you are back :-)

If you have time, could you review some of the patches that I sent to
the list a few weeks ago? I'd like to know if I was going on the right
direction with them.

As for your recent blog posts I found them excellent. However I think
you should try to make the case for how one would integrate MyHDL into
an existing "traditional" workflow, as we have been recently
discussing in this list. I think that the "how to get from here to
there" question may be what makes it harder for people to imagine how
MyHDL could be useful for them, as opposed to a nice concept.

Cheers,

Angel