Greeting.
I have been working on a configuration program for servo / hardware stepper machines.
It is based on / similar to, stepconf. Bit of a write up here:
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Pncconf
It requires a Mesa card (for now at least) for the servo / stepper signals and can use parallel ports for general I / O. It's far from finished but can configure some basic machines (as far as I have tested it). It's only available in the development version of EMC.
But what I want to know is what users liked / disliked with stepconf and or think is important for a servo configuration program to cover.
Now stepconf was made to be a basic configurator of software stepper machines and pncconf is made for much more complicated servo and or stepper machines so pncconf will be more complicated to use.
AS pncconf was based from stepconf it uses the same 'wizard' approach as a user interface, so if you didn't like that...
Pncconf will make using custom HAL file easier to integrate.
One of the main objectives is to eliminate the need to tweak the auto configured files for the majority of situations. Making it possible to reload a configuration change a couple of things and resave without having to go back and fix all the tweaks again.
Anyone interested in helping with testing or developing I would be interested in hearing from. This is really my first program with Python so certainly could be improved on.
Chris M