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Re: eCos 3.0 planning


Very good news John.

Btw would suggest to open discussion about feature/wish list. For
instance it would be good to adopt platform natural installation systems
such as deb, rpm, etc.

Best regards
Ilija

John Dallaway wrote:
> eCos community
>
> The assignment of copyright in the eCos public sources to the FSF is
> now complete and it is time to push forward with our plans for a new
> release of eCos. A new release at this time is important for a number
> of reasons:
>
> a) It allows us to draw a line which marks eCos under FSF copyright
> ownership. For this reason alone, we will be bumping the major version
> number and make this an "eCos 3.0" release.
>
> b) Although most members of the eCos community work from our CVS
> repository, a new release will generate publicity for the project and
> send a clear message to technology decision makers.
>
> c) A new release will provide a better experience for users
> downloading and installing eCos for the first time.
>
> We plan to incorporate the following new features into the eCos 3.0
> release:
>
> * Support for more recent GNU toolchain components
> * Flash v2 infrastructure and example drivers (supporting multiple flash
>   parts on a single hardware platform)
> * Support for Microsoft Vista within the eCos host tools
>
> Of course, the new release will also incorporate the numerous
> enhancements, bug fixes and platform support packages that have been
> contributed since the last release.
>
> As with previous releases, we will aim for verification of eCos
> architectural support by testing on a representative set of hardware
> platforms to which the maintainers have access. Offers of assistance
> in testing on some of the less common architectures would be
> gratefully received. Please contact the eCos maintainers at:
>
>   ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org
>
> We will be aiming to release eCos 3.0 towards the end of September
> 2008 and will therefore branching in August. If you have any local
> patches that you would like to see incorporated into the new release,
> please submit them for review as soon as possible, allowing time for
> the copyright assignment process.
>
> John Dallaway
> eCos 3.0 release manager
>


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