I'm working on it. Really! I've decided to implement the serial control piece in Perl (using Michael's TAIT as my guide), 'cause I just don't like the way I have to parse through a log file to get results from TAIT. I also have intentions to re-implement downfits into the perl module, for a 'all-in-one' control solution.
I've finished an initial pass of an Observation module (in Perl, of course), which eventually will be able to handle scheduling (through a different module using Genetic Algorithms, which I have not started yet), but currently just handles a user supplied list of simple observation requests.
Time frame: probably end of summer for all of the above... Although once I have bits and pieces of useful code working, I'll let folks know.
I guess this is my status report for the last month or so also.
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I just put up some documentation about my Observations perl (pod2html) modules. The first is the virtual base class, the second provides a simple, first implementation. More complexity will come, 'specially when I've worked out the serial communication module. The documentation has a couple of small holes, (hmmmm...), but is basically there.
http://www.logicalchaos.org/perl/Astro_Observations.html
http://www.logicalchaos.org/perl/Astro_Observations_Simple.html