On 14/10/19 4:07 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote: > On 13/10/2019 11:15, Chris Johns wrote: >> On 12/10/19 8:08 am, Joel Sherrill wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 3:40 PM Gedare Bloom <ged...@rtems.org >>> <mailto:ged...@rtems.org>> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 8:34 AM Andrew Butterfield >>> <andrew.butterfi...@scss.tcd.ie >>> <mailto:andrew.butterfi...@scss.tcd.ie>> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Dear RTEMS Users, >>> > >>> > Sebastian Huber asked me to check the availability of Doorstop >>> (https://pypi.org/project/doorstop/) for macOS, and to report my >>> experience >>> on this mailing list. >>> > >>> > It is planned to use this for RTEMS requirements in the RTEMS >>> qualification project. >>> > >>> I would like to clarify and request confirmation that the use of >>> Doorstop tools will not be required for "casual" RTEMS users. >> >> It is the view I have. I cannot confirm the view of others. >> >>> It will >>> be necessary for RTEMS maintainers and for users who want to be >>> involved in the pre-certification effort. Correct? >> >> Great question. I do not know. > > Yes, RTEMS maintainers and users who want to be involved in the > pre-qualification effort will have to work with Doorstop and the specification > items. RTEMS users will not get in touch with Doorstop directly and don't have > to install it.
Great. It is good to know Doorstop itself holds no state information and the YAML files that control the build are the same files Doorstop uses. I am fine with developers and maintainer needing to install and manage more dependencies including python3 than a standard user. >>> I have identified some roles for using RTEMS and we may want to discuss >>> those at >>> another time. >> >> Lets then leave this aside until we get to discuss them :) >> >>> If this is required when you bootstrap RTEMS, I would consider it something >>> required by a casual user given that we expect everyone to do that. >> >> Then I suggest it does not become part of any bootstrap process. > > What do you mean with bootstrap? Calling ./boostrap or ./rtems-bootstrap? My > new > build system prototype doesn't need such a step. You can clone the repository > and directly start with "./waf configure". You just have to provide a > "build.ini" file, but this is more or less the same as the old configure > command > line options. > Nice, this makes things simpler. Chris _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/users
