From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bart Veer To: airlied@parthus.com Cc: ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] next release time Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 08:07:00 -0000 Message-id: <200007071507.QAA20689@sheesh.cygnus.co.uk> References: X-SW-Source: 2000-07/msg00068.html >>>>> "Dave" == Dave Airlie writes: Dave> Any ideas when another net release is planned? Just Dave> wondering I'd like to see things like non-blocking I/O in a Dave> net release as opposed to having to mess with CVS and Dave> explain to others how to get the latest stuff down.. There is no specific schedule for the next net release at this time. For our past net releases we have gone through a full QA cycle on all supported targets. This takes a long time, especially as the number of targets continues to increase. Also it requires test farm resources which may be needed for making releases to paying customers. Hence we only want to make full releases when there have been really major changes to the system, e.g. the switch to the CDL-based configuration technology for the 1.3 release. There are alternative approaches, e.g. developer snapshots, or only doing QA on "key" targets (which is what the gcc folks do for their major releases). For now anonymous CVS seems to be sufficient for most people, but this may change in future. Of course there is nothing to stop other people from generating developer snapshots based on an anoncvs checkout, and writing the appropriate scripts. eCos is open source, so you are allowed to redistribute it yourself. If such developer snapshots proved to be popular with the community then we could start using the same scripts on sourceware.cygnus.com Bart Veer // eCos net maintainer