Ok, dopey question.....
https://www.poscope.com/product/pokeys57e/lists:
PoKeys Mach4 plugin 8.38.0.3630 + manuals
The changelog within the plugin lists:
#define POKEYS_MACH4_VERSION "8.38.0.3630"
#define COMPATIBLE_MACH4_BUILD "0.3630"
Current Mach4 build is 0.3804...
A quick search of the NFS FTP server unfortunatly does not list 0.3630......
ftp://ftp.machsupport.com/Mach4/DevlopmentVersions/closest version seems to be:
0.3633
which may be about to drop off the end of the list, given it dates from 13 Jan 2018
some Linux distributions run an "LTS" Long Term Support" version which allows for some stability in ever developing distributions.... Would be "nice" if NFS ran such a process..... it may allow for motion controller / plugin developers to base their plugins on an LTS release.
Unresolvable gripe over (NFS issue)
I noticed that there however was not a Mach4 "compatible release" download on the PoLabs site, which I thought there would have been..... given that is the tested / recommended release...... If I was intending to use this for commercial / production, I would have thought / expected that it would be available.
Bit more resolvable gripe with PoLabs (if NeoTO reads this maybe).
Ok.....
question.... given the current Mach4 release is 0.3804, are there any issues using this version with PoLabs / Pokeys current plugin release?
Is anything broke between Mach4
current release and the
current Pokeys plugin release? .... should I be using a specific Mach4 release that is considered PoKeys stable?
{kind of like with Mach3.... the recommended version with most motion controllers was 0.62, despite the last release (on the NFS site) being 0.66}
Thanks (I'll shoot an email to PoLabs too)
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