my primary goal is to make microcontroller learning available to people mostly in less developed countries, maybe only for the few gifted kids: the ones that might make an actual difference when they grow in skills, but have none yet (and no one to teach them).
As such, whatever we come up with has to be simple and reasonably reliable. While I am thankful to all the kind suggestions about building from source, which no doubt would extent my skillset beyond where it is now, I wish for something that kids (or I :-) ) can install with a couple commands. Whether it is a customized build, or from official repositories, then we're good, probably I just learned that, from the potential 2 million kids worldwide that were handed an XO, at least 1/2 million kids are lost to this opportunity anyway: Uruguay has blocked sudo :-( On 11/26/2012 07:27 AM, Peter Bigot wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Reginald Beardsley > <pulask...@yahoo.com>wrote: > >> I would like to second Daniel's comment about building from source. It's >> a little tedious, but not hard. The mpsgcc toolchain build is a bit messy, >> but there are sound reasons for it being the way it is. Hopefully this >> will improve w/ TI support. >> >> If you depend upon someone else to build your toolchain for you, you'll >> get what you deserve, but probably won't like it. If you're having problems >> w/ a bug in an old version, you will be asked to update to the current >> version before anyone will be willing to take your problem seriously. >> >> Prebuilt binaries are fine for things you make little use of. Things you >> make heavy use of you should build from source. You should also take the >> time to understand why the tools are structured the way they are. There >> *will* come a time when it matters. >> > I prefer downstream distributions to build packages and for users to > install those. The maintenance burden on me is significantly less, and the > user gets a toolchain that's normally been vetted by somebody else as at > least basically functional. The days when it was appropriate and necessary > for every user to be competent at building every package they depend on > are, thankfully, past. I've done X11 and TeX; I'm more than happy to leave > Gnome and OpenOffice to somebody else. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Mspgcc-users mailing list Mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mspgcc-users
