<div dir="ltr"><p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Hi,</span></p><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">I would wish to take up the project of making an Application Configuration GUI for RTEMS in this year's GSoC.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">I was studying the various approaches available and it eventually boiled down to this-</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
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<td width="208" valign="top" style="width:156pt;border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0cm 5.4pt;min-height:45.25pt"><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:20pt"> APPROACH</span></p></td><td width="208" valign="top" style="width:156.05pt;border-style:solid solid solid none;border-top-color:windowtext;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-top-width:1pt;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;min-height:45.25pt">
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:20pt"> PROS</span></p></td><td width="208" valign="top" style="width:156.05pt;border-style:solid solid solid none;border-top-color:windowtext;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-top-width:1pt;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;min-height:45.25pt">
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:20pt"> CONS</span></p></td></tr><tr style="min-height:36.7pt"><td width="208" valign="top" style="width:156pt;border-style:none solid solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-left-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;min-height:36.7pt">
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1)</span> <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> T</span>o use the configuration</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> GUI from eCos and NutOS.</span></p></td><td width="208" valign="top" style="width:156.05pt;border-style:none solid solid none;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;min-height:36.7pt">
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">- Based on WX Widgets.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- Highly Portable</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> (runs on Windows and Linux)</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p></td><td width="208" valign="top" style="width:156.05pt;border-style:none solid solid none;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;min-height:36.7pt">
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">The code is heavily based on templates which are difficult to understand and port.</span></p></td></tr><tr style="min-height:50.2pt">
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2) T</span>o use the config infrastructure used by the GNU/Linux kernel.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p></td><td width="208" valign="top" style="width:156.05pt;border-style:none solid solid none;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;min-height:50.2pt">
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">Works well on Linux.</span></p></td><td width="208" valign="top" style="width:156.05pt;border-style:none solid solid none;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;min-height:50.2pt">
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">Does not support MS Windows.</span></p></td></tr><tr style="min-height:47.4pt"><td width="208" valign="top" style="width:156pt;border-style:none solid solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-left-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;min-height:47.4pt">
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">To write a cross platform GUI in python. This also can be done in 2 ways-</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3a)-</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> To start with an existing open source project like Xpresser.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> Portable</p></td><td width="208" valign="top" style="width:156.05pt;border-style:none solid solid none;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;min-height:47.4pt">
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> Documentation is scarce.</p></td></tr><tr style="min-height:53pt"><td width="208" valign="top" style="width:156pt;border-style:none solid solid;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-left-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;min-height:53pt">
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3b) To code the application from scratch using python and GTK+. If any OS specific requirements are needed then they can be coded separately.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Highly portable & modifiable.</span></p></td><td width="208" valign="top" style="width:156.05pt;border-style:none solid solid none;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-right-color:windowtext;border-right-width:1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;min-height:53pt">
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Coding has to start from scratch.</span></p><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div>
</td></tr></tbody></table><br><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">This made me think that approach 3b would be the best for a baseline. These are just my Initial ideas. A lot of other work apart from this (XML parsing,rewriting conf.t etc) also needs to be done. I would discuss them once the baseline becomes clear. Please help me analyse any deficiencies in my understanding.</span><br>
</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Cheers,</span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Shubham</span></div>
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