On 05 Feb 2015, at 02:06, Chris Johns <chr...@rtems.org> wrote: > On 1/02/2015 10:19 pm, Andreas Färber wrote: >> Am 01.02.2015 um 09:52 schrieb Liviu Ionescu: >>> Why do you think end users would want to build OpenOCD? >> >> * End users of OpenOCD are in fact developers. >> * You've packaged 0.8.0, with broken support for J-Link, CMSIS-DAP, etc. >> * OpenOCD ships only a subset of board configs, new boards appear daily. >> * Contributing to Open Source projects can be fun! :) > > * Life time of a project may out live the current server and desktop > operating systems. > > This is a reality for a number of RTEMS users. Access to the source is not > enough. Complete source with the ability to rebuild and _test_ is important. > It gives the project maintainers the ability to migrate if they need to and > some have to.
I don't get the exact practical suggestion from your message, but, for those interested, my binary distributions not only that are planned to be archived forever (well, as long as SourceForge exists), but the archives also include the complete script used to build the archive. regards, Liviu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ OpenOCD-devel mailing list OpenOCD-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openocd-devel
