On Wed 19 Jun, Michael Vogt wrote: > I can confirm what wookey says. At least emdebsys is in quite good > shape. We use it at university for a emdebeded system project and the > results are good. > > There is a problem though. The frontend relies on CML2 [1] which was part > of kbuild 2.5 but was removed recently and is no longer developed.
I wondered if that was going to happen, given the direction of kbuild. Oh well. > So before emdebsys can reach production quality IMHO a new frontend has > to be written :-/ IMHO the CML2 frontend was always the weak point of > emdebsys (whereas the snp-backend was the real strengh), because you had > to do to much "by-hand" in order to include new config-options. I have > some ideas about a new frontend (which could use more debian tools like > python-apt, a Package-like description and so on), but other duties > keeps me from working on it :-/ Care to expand on your ideas? Can we use the new kbuild config mechanism in a similar way to CML2 or is there some other config language/machanism that might be good. Suggestions welcome. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
