Re: [ECOS] How to build redboot/ecos?

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

Alex Schuilenburg wrote:
> Gary Thomas wrote:
> ...
>
> > > > Really?  Where?  The only official source for eCos is:
> > > >  http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/
> > >
> > >
> > > It is?
> > >
> > > I thought we were moving away from the RedHat based URL to the vendor 
> > > neutral http://ecos.sourceware.org/

The vendor neutral aspect is important for the FSF.

> > Fair enough, but it surely isn't on sourceforge AFAIK.
>
> Source*ware*, not sourceforge.

i.e. the poster may have gotten confused.

> ecos.sourceware.org is simply an alias for s.r.c. and s.r.c. has been 
> set up to provide virtual hosting.  Hence it is the same machine, just 
> not advertised as such.  The gcc group use the same trick for gcc.gnu.org

We haven't gone all the way though. In particular, we would want to change 
mailing list names, which we haven't yet.

> I suspect the announcement may have been be delayed until eCos falls 
> under the FSF umbrella so that ecos becomes also available as 
> http://ecos.gnu.org.  The prefferred "official" URL,
> ecos.gnu.org or ecos.sourceware.org, is up to you maintainers to decide :-)

It should be ecos.sourceware.org for now, because for the time being the 
FSF is insisting that although we can be an FSF project, we cannot be a 
GNU project, so we would be http://ecos.nongnu.org/ if anything, which I 
feel less interested in.

Jifl
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