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From: Tomasz Mloduchowski <mlodutb@×××.EDU>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - new category dev-tos
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:31:54
Message-Id: 43C8F821.8080204@mit.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - new category dev-tos by Alexandre Buisse
1 Alexandre Buisse wrote:
2 > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 13:44:52 +0100, sanchan wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >>Hi all, I'm working on TinyOS related ebuilds (Bug #78908) and since
6 >>actually there are 20 ebuilds in my overlay may be worth proposing a
7 >>dev-tos category.
8 >>It will take a few weeks in order to have all the ebuilds updated for the
9 >>new release of tinyos, have them reviewed by peer an committed to the tree,
10 >>but it's a lot easier to make a category early rather than moving stuff.
11 >
12 >
13 > I don't know TinyOS, but I assume it is a "toy OS", like minix and many others.
14 > What about a dev-toyos category? It could be great to have some other
15 > toy OS, including the one I have been working on (funk, see
16 > http://home.gna.org/funk/), but also, if licences allow it, plan9,
17 > minix3, coyotos, l4 and so on.
18 >
19 > I do not have ebuilds for any of them but could help make some if people
20 > agree that it could be useful.
21 >
22 > Regards,
23 > Alexandre
24 Actually, TinyOS is a good operating system for small embedded design..
25 having the ebuilds somewhere in portage could be a good idea.. maybe
26 dev-alternateos ? qnx could also go in there..
27
28 Best regards,
29 Tomasz

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