Large technology companies release snapshots of OSS all the time.
Are you trying to promote something "better"? troll. On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 04:44 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-12-13, Loginov Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The question was very simple: why is the latest eCos release 5 > > years old? > > Because that's the last time somebody paid developers to do the > work involved in a public "release". > > > Don't tell me about snapshots. > > If you don't want to hear answers, then don't ask questions. > > > This is just for eCos itself, for its further development, > > Nonsense. > > > because snapshots are always supposed to have bugs, > > Utter bullshit. They do have bugs, but so do releases. Neither > is "supposed to have bugs". > > > sometimes even intentional, to help to debug other bugs. > > Bah. Nobody intentionally checks in bugs. > > > Have you ever heard about commercial companies that install > > the latest Linux snapshots to their offices or to the > > expensive products? Never. Just stable releases. > > There are no "stable releases" of Linux any more. Active > development is being done in the "stable" tree. There are no > more stable and development versions of Linux like there used > to be. > > > I guess, you are not from the world of the commercial products > > development. > > On the contrary, we are all from the world of commercial > products development. That's what eCos is used for: developing > commercial products. I've been using eCos to develop > commercial products for 7+ years, and the lack of "releases" > hasn't been even the least bit of a problem. > > If you feel you're not capable of working from a CVS repository > and really want a "released" version, then that's what eCosPro > is: > > http://www.ecoscentric.com/ecos/ecospro.shtml > > > The considerations here are a bit different than that in the > > world of open-source software community. > > No, not really. > > > By the way, Linux is not RTOS and never will be. We have very > > tough hard real-time requirements. So it is not for us. Many > > great RTOSes in aviationa and military actually distinguish > > between privilege levels (QNX, Integrity, LynuxOS, pikeOS, > > etc). MMU usage is Ok in real-time if you use it properly (no > > page swapping, page locking, etc.). > > Perhaps one of those RTOSes will meet your privilege management > requirement better than eCos. > > -- > Grant > > -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
