Re: [ECOS] eCos Configuration Tool

[Emilio Monti <emilmont at gmail dot com>]

Thank you for the information.
First I will give a closer look to ecosconfig.
Emilio


2005/9/18, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 07:59:33PM +0200, Emilio Monti wrote:
> > Is there any plan to convert the "eCos Configuration Tool" in Java ?
> > It would also be usefull to better integrate the eCos configuration in Eclipse.
> >
> > There are plenty of "open source" projects for "Parser Generator" and
> > "Code Generator" in Java that could form a good basis for a project
> > like that.
> >
> > It could be an advantage also for the GUI.
> > Java mantains portability, like wxWindows, but enances graphics.
> >
> > For the manage of makefiles and cygwin/unix tools there is a good code
> > basis in the eclipse CDT plugins.
> >
> > If there's any project like that I would be happy to help.
> 
> There is no project that i know of.
> 
> My impression is that none of the maintainers actually use the
> configtool. At least i don't use it, and always give debug
> instructions using ecosconfig. The other maintainers are also mostly
> unix people who like CLI programs and so use ecosconfig all the time.
> 
> I think the configtool is more to keep the commercial clients happy
> where the management people have a percieved need for a "friendly GUI"
> when they buy eCos from the companies that give commercial support. I
> don't remember anybody actually contributing patches for the
> configtool, so from an open source perspective, the configtool is
> dead. The RTOS is what people are interested in, not the tools needed
> to configure it.
> 
> I suspect that a java version would similar be dead unless it got a
> maintainer who had a passion to write and maintain it and i also
> suspect there would be little help from the eCos community. However i
> could be wrong, so don't let me put you off from trying....
> 
>         Andrew
>

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