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(2008-04-18 06:41:11) kanzure: fenn: you have sufficiently disrupted my depiction of the system that I need your further clarification -- all of your talks on units seems to have ignored how the packages demand they be setup, such as the lathe-package, which has its own g-code and its own specifications for material requirements
(2008-04-18 06:41:17) kanzure: and so on, these material requirements for making the object are different from typical unit requirements, especially since you need to use some 'form' of material in many cases ("I need xyz type of material, I don't care if you can't magically extract it")
(2008-04-18 06:41:31) kanzure: -- which is where the Common Object Library (implemented by python plugins in skdb for user download) comes into play. I think these plugins would have to tie
(2008-04-18 06:41:32) kanzure: in their functions to some main 'processes', i.e. if you load in an extra module then the main functions running through the script should treat it like an API and just call $module.buildFunc() or something; *but* from the sounds of it this is not the case that you were suggesting