RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: IMService releases ncPOD system

All,

I believe Bert (USBCNC) told me that he intentionally used a relatively old
version of the EMC files to spawn his product for reasons that escape me
now.

What are the issues in Bert's programs?

Alan KM6VV

> >John,
> >
> >Unfortunately the USBCNC software still has many of the Bugs inherent
> >in the EMC codebase which Art has swatted over the years. (I have
> >three of Bert's USBCNC chips and systems set up. They have "issues".)
> >
> >
> Could you elaborate on these EMC bugs, please? Art started with what is
> now a very old version of EMC, whereas it appears that Oemtech started
> with a version of EMC2 from sometime in the middle of last year. (This
> is hard to pin down exactly since it appears they haven't published the
> source code yet, but that's another topic)
>
> The EMC2 bug database contains 7 bugs, none of which was present when
> Art started his work with EMC (if you'd like to see them, the bug list
> is here:
> <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=106744&group_id=6744&func=browse> ).
>
> It's not reaasonable to just state categorically to the user (and
> potential user) community that there are bugs in EMC2 when you haven't
> filed a bug report with the developers.
>
> We take bug reports very seriously, and bugs that actually affect users
> and their gcode are fixed very quickly.
>
> Looking forward to the bug reports
> - Steve
>