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

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:32, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> 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.

So, should we start using that address (ecos.sourceware.org) whenever
possible?

-- 
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates