Re: [ECOS] NASTY bug in eCos ConfigTool 1.3.1.2 Win32

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>]

Dan Conti wrote:
> 
> You can actually make the '*' appear by clicking anywhere else in the
> config.
> In general the config tool is less than perfect, there are other things
> it doesn't do, like if you change the memory layout it won't properly
> recreate the target.ld file (if you manually delete the target.ld, then
> save, it will create it properly i think). also there are other changes
> that dont propogate through the config tree properly, like if you unload
> a package, but dont change any of the configuration options, it doesn't
> update any of the libraries, so even though the package is absent in the
> config, it is still present in the libraries.
> 
> On a related note for the RedHat folks, since the old config tool is no
> longer maintained,

See my earlier clarification.

> how much longer before the new tool comes out of
> alpha? 

As long as it takes? No one has funded this work, so there is no ETA on
completion. If someone wants to fund this work, then there will be :-).
There are all sorts of wonderful host side improvements and new tools that
would help users a lot, but they won't happen without some level of
(paying) customer demand.

> Additionally, with the consistency issues, does the 2.0 alpha
> tool work properly with older eCos repositories?

The MLT files are incompatible with 1.3.1 era repositories. This is
unavoidable.

Jifl
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