Thank you for the information. First I will give a closer look to ecosconfig. Emilio
2005/9/18, Andrew Lunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
