Talley Lambert

> I'm willing to put a PR together that integrates an Ubuntu runner into the github actions matrix. that would be fantastic, and very much appreciated! Thanks @RileyMShea.

Hey @henrypinkard, would be great to have a swappable backend. Is there a way to get callbacks from core for events besides saved images (such as hardware properties changing, akin...

Yeah use psygnal. Correct, no qt. Pure python/cython event system

> I think we found that to avoid crashes when in callbacks we had to use qt signals instead of pysgnal when in napari-micromanager. is this even independent of pyro?...

> The other issue would be the usage of methods that got added to pymmcore-plus such as setRelativeXYZ and getOrGuessChannelGroup. Would pycromanager need to implement those? Yeah, it's unclear exactly...

>since there isn't an explicit wrapping layer around the core in pycromanager analogous to pymmcoreplus, and I dont think it is a good idea to create one for the reason...

> Just that signalling class or is there more? yes, it's just that, but the difference between that and the builtin events system is that `mmcore.registerCallback` doesn't make it very...

regarding the dependency on java, i think it's pretty easy to see both sides here right? I acknowledge that it's not "that hard"... I can see that you're very comfortable...

> but the question is how much work is involved, and which of these things can we actually pull off in a reasonable amount of time. Totally agree. After looking...

Yep agreed! Thanks @ianhi. @henrypinkard, I only assigned this issue to you because we likely can't move forward without you (Not out of lack of interest in modular parts)