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: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 > -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
