OpenSBP for Reprap?

It looks like Shopbot has come up with their own alternative to G-Code which they've just open-sourced. I know that the Reprap project has a G-code library, which I haven't had the luxury of examining as closely as I'd like yet. So I'm asking those more knowledgeable than I: would this be a useful thing to try to adapt to the Reprap project, or does it not offer substantial benefits over what we're using now?

(I'm especially asking Chris Meighan--if he's still around--since I know he was working on an improved version of the G-code firmware.)

If the consensus is yes, in the coming weeks or months I'd love to look at what it would take to adapt for Reprap use.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/14/2009 10:24AM by Chris Meyer.

It looks like they didn't actually open-source anything, they just released the specification for the OpenSBP description language.
I might be wrong, but I peeked around and only found Windows binaries of their tools.

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Sorry, I was a little unclear with that last post. Shopbot hasn't open-sourced their software, no, just the spec ("open sourced" as in "they've released it for free and have provided a mechanism to extend it"). As far as I know right now, they do only provide binaries of their software, and any open-source code would have to be made from whole cloth, as it were. That's why I'm asking whether the community thinks it would be a worthwhile endeavor to write a driver for this, since it would be a more substantial effort than just refactoring existing code.