From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29922 invoked by alias); 10 Mar 2008 10:57:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 29914 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Mar 2008 10:57:55 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,TVD_RCVD_IP X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from 204-133-123-27.dia.static.slbbi.com (HELO mail.chez-thomas.org) (204.133.123.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:57:30 +0000 Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id CC20E195025E; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:57:28 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (hermes_local [192.168.1.101]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7FF51950027; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:57:23 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <47D51413.9050303@mlbassoc.com> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:57:00 -0000 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Lunn CC: Jonathan Larmour , eCos Maintainers Subject: Re: EL/IX References: <47D50D76.4020608@eCosCentric.com> <20080310103538.GA23194@donkey.ma.tech.ascom.ch> In-Reply-To: <20080310103538.GA23194@donkey.ma.tech.ascom.ch> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-03/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:29:10AM +0000, Jonathan Larmour wrote: >> The sourceware overseers are agitating for removing the EL/IX project since >> it's extremely dead. They have a point. >> >> http://sourceware.org/elix/ >> >> However we refer to it in a few places from our docs. >> >> Should I either: >> 1) object entirely? >> 2) Incorporate the EL/IX spec into the eCos project? >> or >> 3) Just remove all our EL/IX references. >> >> Personally I think 3. It's time to just face up to the fact it's dead. > > I agree. Remove all references. Absolutely - nuke that stillborn madness... (sorry, did I say/write that out loud?) -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------