Hi Doug,
I let Martin Oberhuber outline all the possibilities, but in short, we are aware of the unsatisfying status of the RXTX library and it is for sure one of you
next step to look into an RXTX replacement. But before doing this, I want to get the RSE / Terminal cleanup done and the home of the Terminal widget clarified. I think we are making progress here. After that, I’m open to work on replacing RXTX with jSSC or
nrjavaserial or … .
And of course, contributions are always very welcome.
Best regards, Uwe
J
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On Behalf Of Doug Schaefer
Sent: Freitag, 21. November 2014 16:43
To: TM project developer discussions; TCF Development
Subject: [tm-dev] Serial Terminal
I brought this up a while ago. But I’m looking at the Serial Terminal again and am wondering how to proceed. The current TM serial uses rxtx. As discussed before,
rxtx is a dead project. The website is down and our last communication from the owner indicated he wasn’t in a hurry to bring it back. Also, there hasn’t been a release since 2007 and I’m not sure that release will support the latest Mac and Windows. And the
rxtx up on Maven central doesn’t have the JNI libraries anyway. The weird thing, though is that there is an rxtx repo up on github but I can’t see who the members are other than to see commits from various people in the last few years including our own Martin
Oberhuber.
For the Arduino IDE work, I did a new serial terminal using the jSSC library. I found it pretty nice to work with and supported all the latest platforms. It’s
last release was back in March. Now there doesn’t appear to be any activity on it since then so I’m not sure if it’s alive either. But at least it’s has a much more recent release. You can see my Arduino terminal here:
In the end, I’d like to propose we move the serial terminal over to jSSC so we can actually allow the community to use it. Unless, of course, the people who have
been maintaining rxtx do an official release of it.
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