From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28666 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2003 10:25:51 -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 28644 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2003 10:25:47 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:25:00 -0000 From: Jani Monoses To: Andrew Lunn Cc: ecos-maintainers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] lwip officially in ecos? Message-Id: <20030912131348.53277f8a.jani@iv.ro> In-Reply-To: <20030912101855.GB347@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> References: <20030912121452.5c29331b.jani@iv.ro> <20030912101855.GB347@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00016.txt.bz2 On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:18:55 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 12:14:52PM +0300, Jani Monoses wrote: > > Hello all > > > > I'd like to ask the maintainers' opinion on putting lwIP in ecos > > CVS. > > My opinion is that its a good idea. It complements the other two > stacks well and people do use it. > > How actively is the base of lwIP being developed. One down side of > integrating it into eCos, is that new developments of the upstream > package take longer to get into the eCos version. As it is now, people > will import the latest version into there own trees rather than use a > potentially old version in eCos. What would be good is if you could > put some scripts into the eCos package which automagically updated the > eCos version with the latest from Savanna. It then becomes a case of > running the script and then the test cases before committing it to the > eCos repository. jffs2 works like this. There is a script which makes an EPK in the savannah CVS. This way from time to time I (or anybody) can make that epk and send the diff against the latest checkpoint to ecos-patches. But activity of lwip development is not too high. Having it in ecos I hope that at least testing and feedback if not development rate will increase a bit. Jani