From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31851 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2005 07:03:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Received: (qmail 31830 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jun 2005 07:03:03 -0000 Received: from londo.lunn.ch (HELO londo.lunn.ch) (80.238.139.98) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:03:03 +0000 Received: from lunn by londo.lunn.ch with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DlLjl-0000Tk-00; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:02:57 +0200 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:03:00 -0000 To: "K. Sinan YILDIRIM" Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <20050623070257.GB26538@lunn.ch> Mail-Followup-To: "K. Sinan YILDIRIM" , ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com References: <20050622182844.7476.qmail@web88210.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <200506230927.33072.sinany@beko.com.tr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200506230927.33072.sinany@beko.com.tr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Andrew Lunn Subject: Re: [ECOS] ECOS - MIPS X-SW-Source: 2005-06/txt/msg00217.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 09:27:32AM +0300, K. Sinan YILDIRIM wrote: > People may have positive and negative comments about a SW product. Does this > group for only positive ones ? Or only positive questions ? > > I have been writing SW for about 10 years. I have just examined eCOS and found > that it is configurable on some way and unconfigurable ( hard to reconfigure > ) on some way. May be it is much more configurable than the existing ones but > not a super really configurable OS. > > I am the user. This is a user point of view . Having a seperate HAL layer or a > structured file tree doesnt make an operating system really configurable. > Configurability means to change the operating system according to your needs > in a quick way : not being able to change it in a month... > > configurable modern SW is done with SW patterns. Architectural and Design > patterns makes SW configurable, easy to change, etc... Embedded SW needs good > architectural design with really reusable architectural and design patterns. > What makes JAVA popular is these points. It is a programming framework that > fullfills these points. > > eCOS is not a really framework. When you read the documentation, it seems to > be an OS framework but indeed it doesn't. > > What i try to mean is we must make it better in order to make it usable in the > future. Could you give some examples of what you would change? Thanks Andrew -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss