[Tinyos-devel] Re: Python SDK

[Philip Levis]

On Jul 3, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Vlado Handziski wrote:

> If we aim for 2.1, we should first fix MIG because the code that is  
> currently generated is sometimes "unpythonic". Better support for  
> message encapsulation/decapsulation is also very important. I am  
> not sure how far these issues are addressed in the code from Matt,  
> but they were the main reason why we did not submit to the core our  
> serial forwarder implementation based on twisted python. We use  
> internal workarounds for the above problems, and pushing them into  
> the core would have required rewriting major parts of the TOSSIM  
> python support.

Can you be more specific?

> Another "nice to have" item would be to update the rpc and the nesc  
> modules from Kamin to handle the platform independent message  
> structures. This will give us a well rounded, powerful SDK.

Agreed. But let's not make this a blocking item for progress on more  
contained (and pressing) issues.

Phil