From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30721 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2003 16:32:54 -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 30712 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2003 16:32:53 -0000 Message-ID: <3F6F2423.8060804@eCosCentric.com> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:32:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Schuilenburg Cc: Gary Thomas , eCos Maintainers Subject: Re: [ECOS] How to build redboot/ecos? References: <1063752622.5547.472.camel@hermes> <3F6F1B9D.2020000@ecoscentric.com> <1064246821.1015.283.camel@hermes> <3F6F2048.9070906@ecoscentric.com> In-Reply-To: <3F6F2048.9070906@ecoscentric.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00027.txt.bz2 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. Jifl -- eCosCentric http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts --["No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway"]-- Opinions==mine