Re: Re: is eCos dying?

On 03.10.2015 10:15, John Dallaway wrote:

Hi Abhishek,

>> Would it be worth to start learning on eCos or is it dying ?I have seen
>> enough activity in 2007 but now it is minimal this year.
>> Is it getting outdated?

> eCos is not dying, but I would have to agree that there has been less
> activity on the mailing lists recently.

Well the last commit in http://hg-pub.ecoscentric.com/ecos/ is 5 months
old one-liner, followed by a 12 and 15 month old ones, so this is not only
on mailing lists. I'd say that while it is still a good OS with clean
and easy to use architecture, the open source version basically died
and there are parts hopelessly outdated (TCP/IP from ~2000 if
I remember correctly etc).

I cannot comment on eCosPro, but then you are in a price segment
where there are more alternatives to explore.

>> should i begin to work using eCos or should i look for other alternative?

It depends on what your short and long-term plans are. Definitely
also take a look at FreeRTOS.

Regards
-- 
                                             Stano


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