2.9.3 Several broken sim configs in sim/gscreen
Sigma1912 opened this issue · 7 comments
These configs in 'configs/sim/gscreen/' in Version 2.9.3 seem to be broken:
- all configs in the subfolder 'gscreen_custom/'
- 'industrial_lathe_wear'
- 'silverdragon'
- 'spartan'
If nobody is interested in fixing these then maybe they should be removed?
There are a few broken sim configs. See #1762.
But to remove all broken ones might not be the best.
Not easy to decide which to abandon...
Thanks.
So these configs haven't worked for at least 2 years. I guess the question is what do we do with these broken things. Do we just simply drag them along for another few years or should the fact that nobody has bothered fixing them be taken as an indication that they should be removed?
Personally I find it a somewhat sad testament to the project as a whole if we present things on the config picker that fail on load and have done so for several releases.
Looks like they are bit rotted from GTK3/GLADE changes over the years.
I looked at one and it's more work then I wish to expend. I'm not savvy with GTK anymore.
Removing seems fine.
Oh I wonder if it matters how old a system one is using. I see someone mentions using silverdragon with 2.9.2 here:
#2951
Thank you for your feedback.
I do all my testing on a recent Debian Bookworm installation with Linuxcnc 2.9.3 installed through the package manager and also on recent RIP installations. All the configs listed in this PR fail on load with gtk related errors.
Note that this quote from the linked page 'I runing simulate example sim.gscreen or sim.gscreen.silverdragon.' could simply mean that the user was not quite sure what he was running as the screenshot clearly shows 'gscreen.ini' which still works and is not among the configs I'm suggesting to remove.
Closing this as most have been fixed.