From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31548 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2003 16:35:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31541 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2003 16:35:08 -0000 Subject: Re: [ECOS] How to build redboot/ecos? From: Gary Thomas To: Jonathan Larmour Cc: Alex Schuilenburg , eCos Maintainers In-Reply-To: <3F6F2423.8060804@eCosCentric.com> References: <1063752622.5547.472.camel@hermes> <3F6F1B9D.2020000@ecoscentric.com> <1064246821.1015.283.camel@hermes> <3F6F2048.9070906@ecoscentric.com> <3F6F2423.8060804@eCosCentric.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: MLB Associates Message-Id: <1064248507.1015.316.camel@hermes> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:35:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_XIMIAN autolearn=ham version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00028.txt.bz2 On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:32, Jonathan Larmour wrote: > Alex Schuilenburg wrote: > > Gary Thomas wrote: > > ... > > > >>>> Really? Where? The only official source for eCos is: > >>>> http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/ > >>> > >>> > >>> It is? > >>> > >>> I thought we were moving away from the RedHat based URL to the vendor > >>> neutral http://ecos.sourceware.org/ > > The vendor neutral aspect is important for the FSF. > > >> Fair enough, but it surely isn't on sourceforge AFAIK. > > > > Source*ware*, not sourceforge. > > i.e. the poster may have gotten confused. > > > ecos.sourceware.org is simply an alias for s.r.c. and s.r.c. has been > > set up to provide virtual hosting. Hence it is the same machine, just > > not advertised as such. The gcc group use the same trick for gcc.gnu.org > > We haven't gone all the way though. In particular, we would want to change > mailing list names, which we haven't yet. > > > I suspect the announcement may have been be delayed until eCos falls > > under the FSF umbrella so that ecos becomes also available as > > http://ecos.gnu.org. The prefferred "official" URL, > > ecos.gnu.org or ecos.sourceware.org, is up to you maintainers to decide :-) > > It should be ecos.sourceware.org for now, because for the time being the > FSF is insisting that although we can be an FSF project, we cannot be a > GNU project, so we would be http://ecos.nongnu.org/ if anything, which I > feel less interested in. So, should we start using that address (ecos.sourceware.org) whenever possible? -- Gary Thomas MLB Associates