Thanks for taking the time, David and Abderrezak. As a Mynewt contributor, messages like yours are gratifying to hear.
I won't comment on the question of Mynewt vs. Zephyr! :) Chris On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 07:09:03PM -0400, Abderrezak Mekkaoui wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to add my voice do David's and say kudos to all the > contributors to this project. > I have been using mynewt for a few weeks now (on the nordic 52840 PDK > and my own custom board) with great success. > I encountered few minor issues at the beginning and found help very > quickly from the community. > I am personally very impressed with the effort. But to be thorough an > unbiased I have just started looking into Zephyr as I need to make a > business decision. I still > don't know what open source "framework" would be more appropriate for my > company. Any thoughts or feedback would be very helpful, even though I > am not sure if it is appropriate to ask this group about that? > Thanks once again! > > Abderrezak Mekkaoui > > > On 4/26/2018 11:07 AM, david zuhn wrote: > > Hey all, > > Since most postings on lists like this are of the sort "I can't get this > > to work, help!", sometimes people can overlook the bigger picture. > > > > I started working with MyNewt about a year ago, and quickly ran into > > issues because I needed ADC support on the nRF52, and that didn't work > > "simply". So I ended up moving into the Nordic SDK directly, and I've > > spent a lot of time over the last few months deep in that space. > > > > At ELC in March, I talked to the runtime folks again, and they suggested > > that I take another look at MyNewt, especially master, as the nrfx code had > > been merged in and that made several of the drivers a lot more > > straightforward. > > > > I've been working on my codebase for 2-3 weeks now within MyNewt, and I'm > > further along now than after several months within the Nordic SDK. > > Granted, some of that is just the fact that I have a better understanding > > of what I need to do, and so it's easier to know what to look for in the > > code. > > But the Nimble BLE API's in particular *really* make it a LOT easier to > > get stuff done. Just re-implementing my devices BLE interface took a > > weekend, and I've got more functionality and the code is much cleaner. > > > > I'm not saying MyNewt is perfect. But there's really been a lot of > > progress in the last year, and I'm definitely hopeful for the future. > > It's a nice base to work on right now. > > > > Kudos to everyone involved. > > > > > > david zuhn > > [email protected] > > >
