RE: [ECOS] Re: Is eCos project still alive?

["Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com>]

> From: Andrew Lunn
> 
> It has been for a long time the aim to make a release once 
> the copyright transfer to FSF is completed. This has take 
> much much longer than we ever thought it would take. We are 
> nearly there, there is just one copyright assignment left, 
> which is taking a while to sort out.
> 
> Once this is completed we will start the work needed for a 
> release. This is not something we can do overnight. It 
> involves a lot of work. Nearly ever file needs to be touched 
> in order to change the copyright notices. We probably need 
> new tool chains, want to merge in the v2 flash branch, maybe 
> pick up some patches which got dropped along the way etc. We 
> need to do a lot of testing....

The problem that led to this thread is that there is no mention on any of
the web pages of anything other than 2.0, even though in reality the CVS has
hundreds of subsequent revisions of individual files in it. You don't get to
see that unless you download the code and look at when the individual files
were checked in. It's understandable that people would be unaware at first
that the CVS doesn't simply contain "version 2.0". If the CVS could spit out
an automated revision history, perhaps consisting of a separate web page for
each month, and that had a link to it on the home page, people might not get
this misimpression.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com 


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