On 1/02/2015 10:19 pm, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 01.02.2015 um 09:52 schrieb Liviu Ionescu:
>> Why do you think end users would want to build OpenOCD?
>
> * End users of OpenOCD are in fact developers.
> * You've packaged 0.8.0, with broken support for J-Link, CMSIS-DAP, etc.
> * OpenOCD ships only a subset of board configs, new boards appear daily.
> * Contributing to Open Source projects can be fun! :)

* Life time of a project may out live the current server and desktop 
operating systems.

This is a reality for a number of RTEMS users. Access to the source is 
not enough. Complete source with the ability to rebuild and _test_ is 
important. It gives the project maintainers the ability to migrate if 
they need to and some have to.

Chris

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