From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 475 invoked by alias); 14 Dec 2007 14:28:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 466 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Dec 2007 14:28:15 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from javad.com (HELO javad.com) (216.122.176.236) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:28:00 +0000 Received: from osv ([87.236.81.130]) by javad.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id lBEERmU73635; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:27:48 GMT (envelope-from s.organov@javad.com) Received: from osv by osv with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J3BVu-0003gv-Dc; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:27:42 +0300 To: Brian Austin Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com References: <1197567366.3593.17.camel@lucretius.esaturnus.com> <476190B4.2050606@mindspring.com> <1197639922.23339.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: Sergei Organov Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:39:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <1197639922.23339.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Brian Austin's message of "Fri\, 14 Dec 2007 07\:45\:22 -0600") Message-ID: <87bq8tnyg1.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: [ECOS] Re: Is eCos project still alive? X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00088.txt.bz2 Brian Austin writes: > I can see that, but as for what we use ( RedBoot ). customers love it. > >>From my experiences, if it does what it's supposed to do, who cares how > old it is. How many folks use X11? Well, from xorg site: "The last release of X.Org was 7.3, on September 6, 2007". -- less than 4 months ago ;) I think we must admit that situation with eCos releases is rather unique among alive open-source projects and therefore it can lead to the wrong conclusion that the project is either dead or stagnating. -- Sergei. -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss