I was wondering where FIRST / NI was on giving us a Labview upgrade this coming year. (To either LV 8.6 or LV 2009)
The reason I ask is because I use Labview for a lot more than programming the cRIO. (I use it a lot for statistics and graphs, and sometimes for preproccessing tables into HTML). Lately I’ve even been playing with scripting (and, of course, the right-click framework, when it’s released).
I think part of the reason we’re using Labview in the first place is because it’s always in development, and it’s useful to have experience with a product as it develops.
Our liscence for LV 8.5 runs out in January. An installation CD of Labview is shipped with every KOP. Is there a reason not to provide us LV 8.6 this coming year?
Personally I would be hoping for some specific changes rather than the latest and greatest offering from NI.
These include (but are not limited to)
Better including of libraries during compilation
Faster Compilation
Version Control
Zoom
More documentation of how the provided VI’s WORK (Example, ever crack open the Gyro vi? How does that work?)
And to answer your question, your guess is pretty much as good as ours.
Perhaps you will both get what you want… Not really meaning to be cryptic, but until things are finished, it isn’t wise to talk about them.
Greg McKaskle
Hey Greg,
it would be cool if the Real-Time module was ported to linux too…
nudge nudge
Haha 
Going back to the original question, we’ll get 8.6 next year and it will contain better version control.
I’m sure more details will get released as the beta teams get their kits in a few weeks.