Re: AW: Hello?

Neundorf, Alexander wrote:

>>>-the build system
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>>That definitely needs work- I started a replacement based on SCons,
>>but that never got off the ground.
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>>
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>I think that's the wrong direction.
>It needs a simple build system. Not simple as in "it does everything automatically", but simple as in "you don't need special tools , and everybody understands the used tools".
>Which leaves basically handwritten Makefiles, which ideally would be well commented.
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>
I very much agree to Alexander. In the ideal case for widespread 
embedded use, the minimum  requirements would just be Make and ANSI C 
toolchain. This issue seems to come up once a year :-)

>The license:
>what about OS's which don't have dynamic linking, but only static linking ?
>The plain GPL/LGPL has a problem.
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>
I don't know Micah's intentions exactly, but it seems that GPL with an 
eCos-style exception could be an alternative to the LGPL.

All the best
Peter



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