[Coco] Drivewire development

[Kevin Becker]

Mike Furman is working on implementing Drivewire in Python which might be a
better place to start.


https://github.com/n6il/pyDriveWire




On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Nathan Byrd <techy1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> Over the past few months I've been setting back up the CoCo I've had since
> I was a child and gotten reacquainted with it. I've been super impressed by
> the community, especially the availability of "labor of love" projects such
> as Drivewire. As a software developer, I'd like to try to help give back to
> the community, especially with some ideas I've had around Drivewire updates
> and new features.
>
> It looks like the latest release hasn't been for a number of years, and I
> wanted to see who if anyone is actively working on Drivewire development?
> A couple of changes that I'd like to contribute include:
>
> Short term
> * Migrate the project from CVS to GIT (GitHub or GitLab)
> * Update the project from Ant to Gradle (for better dependency management)
> * Look at replacing the serial library with one with more active
> development and better cross platform support
> * Some code refactoring
>
> Longer term
> * Add (or replace the current GUI with) a new web-based front-end,
> particularly useful for running on a headless raspberry pi for example,
> plus possibly removing another platform dependency
> * Android version - I think this could be really cool, using a phone or
> tablet as a drivewire server, no additional PC needed
> * Virtual cassette support - add support for queing up and playing a .WAV
> file for bootstrapping HDBDos etc. Could support remote URLs etc like the
> current .DSK support.  Maybe with a converter from .BIN and multiple files
> from a .DSK would be cool too
>
> This isn't a full list or anything, just some of the ideas I've been
> playing with - with a migration to a new platform like GitHub we could also
> have an issue tracker to find out what other changes people want to see.
> I've started on some of the short term items, but don't want to go very far
> without coordination with any current team members. Can anyone help point
> me in the right direction? Is there a slack or irc channel etc to talk
> about development or another preferred way for communication?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nathan Byrd
>
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