5940 🍞 Progress Updates

[dellagd]

A bit late to the party with a thread here, but figured we should spool one up anyway as we go into the Offseason using SystemCore for our robot. Our experience last offseason was largely good, apart from us having a hardware issue that resulted in loose metal likely causing a short on the PCB. No major issues with SW.

Going forward, our team is attempting a transition to Python, so hopefully we can provide value to the community as one of the minority of teams making that switch. Given the state of SW compatibility, we are currently testing with:

• SystemCore Image 9
• WPILib 2027.0.0a2
• RobotPy 2027.0.0a2
• Phoenix6 25.90.0-alpha-2

Upgrade is currently gated by a Phoenix6 release supporting the newer Alpha releases of WPILib, which as far as I understand is still a few months out.

One concern I do have is how version compatibility will be handled moving forward. At least in python, normal dependency tracking should be able to handle cross-package version checks, but checks against the SystemCore image version seem unhandled at the moment. Raised this issue: wpilibsuite/allwpilib#8899. WPILib team confirmed they will be implementing this.