Re: converting the sockets and instrument-control packages to mercurial

[John Swensen]

On Jul 12, 2013, at 4:57 AM, Stefan Mahr wrote:

>> I'm converting the instrument-control package to a mercurial
>> repository. I'm thinking of keeping the instrument-control and sockets
>> packages in the same repository. The reason behind this is that the
>> functionality of the sockets package is part of the instrument control
>> toolbox in matlab, so the two packages should be merged anyway. In
>> keeping the history of both together now, means it will be easier to
>> conserve their history when such merge is performed.
>> 
>> Does this decision seems reasonable to everybody else?
> 
> The sockets package is a straight interface to raw sockets. AFAIK Matlab has 
> no direct interface to raw sockets. It makes not much sense to me to merge 
> something from sockets to instrument-control, since instrument-control needs 
> some higher level extensions to be compatible to matlab.
> 
> Stefan

I think his recommendation is to keep them in the same repository, but not make 
them the same package.  I think that is fine. BTW, I haven't worked on sockets 
at all since my first submission.  I looked through the code recently and I 
wanted to give big thanks to whoever made the code much cleaner and better.

John