Re: [myhdl-list] Status update

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

Any new features/feature request will have to wait until 0.8
is released - as it has been heavily used already all I will do for
that is fix obvious bugs and complete the documentation.

On 11/07/2012 11:31 AM, Angel Ezquerra wrote:
> 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
>
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