In gmane.os.ecos.general, you wrote:

> How about splitting the eCos repository?
>
> - It would help to market the support for multiple repositories. I've
>   seen a lot of messy maintainence due to the lack of this knowledge.
> - It would reduce the size of the eCos repository that 90% use.
>
> Something like:
>
> - eCos core. Up to and including architecture HAL's
> - eCos devboard. Contains all the HAL's for development boards.
> - eCos highlevel/net. All high level(many files) stuff like net,
>   microwindows, etc. goes
> - eCos legacy.
>
> 1 eCos repository is too little, 10 is too many. :-)

That does sort of sound like a good idea.  Having hundreds of
megabytes of unused stuff under local source control can be
annoying when you want to check out a new copy or diff an old
one.

> The user would then have to either use a development board HAL
> as-is or create his own eCos repository, probably duplicating
> & modifying an existing HAL.

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