hey —
while we’re updating newt, any additional features folks want/gripes?
major unfinished items i am tracking:
- newt needs a default option to start JLink/openocd, but not
automatically launch gdb on newt debug. This will allow easier Eclipse
integration for debugging.
- newt sync needs to ‘git status’ before wiping out the current
directory. right now, newt sync just goes in, ‘rm -rf’s the
repository it’s resynching, and then git clones it again. this should
probably be:
- git status
- prompt for changes (y/n)?
- git pull origin <branch>
- if that fails, print error message, let user automatically resolve
and retain the current (rm -f behavior) for a forced override.
- need the ability to create new packages - newt new —skeleton pkg
pkg-dir/, which creates a package from a skeleton. Add common skeletons
for drivers, etc.
- global namespacing of remote repositories. Right now repositories
have a name, but there can be duplicates of that name. we should
consider doing something “go” style, where the repository name is a
URL, that resolves to the repository itself — and newt flattens that
hierarchy, i.e.: http://github.com/apache/incubator-mynewt-core becomes
github.com.apache.incubator-mynewt-core in terms of name.
- Add a local way of aliasing these repositories.
- newt currently has a set of package search directories. Adding new
directories requires modifications to newt. By default, it should work
the opposite, where every directory is assumed to be a project search
directory, and we should ignore directories specified in the project.yml
file.
Sterling
