On Monday 17 April 2006 13:48, James wrote: > Petr Kocmid <Petr.Kocmid <at> project-bhairava.org> writes: > > I wander, what's the point of having (noncompilable) > > dev-embedded/avr-libc in portage when there is no avr-gcc nor > > avr-binutils? > No good reason for this....
Well, now I found one: one needs to be a clearvoyant to detect that dev-embedded/avr-libc is probably supposed to be used with sys-devel/crossdev toolset generator. However, for now I am quite satisfied better with Ycarus's overlay ebuilds from zugaina.org. > Well, in my experience with Gentoo, what's available in portage, is a > function of what the 'devs' are interested in. Indeed every packages in > portage needs an evangelist to keep it current and correctly patched. It > seems that none of the devs are much interested in firmware, assembler, > (8-16) bit micro-Controllers and many things related to embedded software > development. The answer is to find an embedded person that can 'get > qualified' as a dev thereby supporting the needs of the firmware community, > in my opinion. > > It's a *DAM SHAM* > > Micro-Controllers, state machines and minimal executives are the heart of > where electronics meet computer science. Verily you hit the Truth! As someone who spent my young age coding on mainframes AND building 8-bits, I am quite dissatisfied with fact today's young computer specialists either have no [soldering+assembler] skills or they can't read in any of prolog/lisp/scheme/haskell, or both. It's really causing a major technology slowdown, where are all those servicing robots we in 80's were expecting to have in 2000 at our homes? ;-) Sorry everyone for shifting off topic. -- Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
