[Tinyos-devel] Re: Python SDK

[Matt Welsh]

Vlado,

Geoff Mainland (who is on the CC line) wrote the code so he might be  
able to comment on this. So far we are pretty happy with the code  
that MIG generates and things seem to work well.

Matt

On Jul 3, 2007, at 5:33 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. 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.
>
> Vlado
>
> On 7/3/07, Philip Levis <pal at cs.stanford.edu> wrote: On Jul 3,  
> 2007, at 1:35 PM, Matt Welsh wrote:
>
> > Thanks.
> >
> > In terms of (2), can you explain how the current python SDK is used?
> > Or give a use case that we can test things with?
> > Or would you be willing to quickly test that our stuff works with
> > something you have already set up?
>
> The test is injecting a packets into a TOSSIM simulation. The
> tutorial has an example of doing this.
>
> We're about to gear up to release 2.0.2; it might be a good idea to
> include your Python codes in the following release, 2.1. That will
> give it a few months in CVS for people to test and use it before
> release.
>
> Phil
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