[PATCH 1/2] user: Spell out third-party

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Thu Jan 24 06:30:00 UTC 2019


On 24/01/2019 03:45, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 7:36 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org 
> <mailto:chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>
>     On 23/1/19 8:42 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>     > ---
>     >  user/exe/executables.rst           |  8 ++++----
>     >  user/hosts/macos.rst               |  4 ++--
>     >  user/hosts/windows.rst             |  4 ++--
>     >  user/installation/releases.rst     |  2 +-
>     >  user/overview/index.rst            |  2 +-
>     >  user/rsb/third-party-packages.rst  | 12 ++++++------
>     >  user/rsb/why-build-from-source.rst |  2 +-
>     >  user/start/index.rst               |  2 +-
>     >  user/tools/index.rst               |  2 +-
>     >  user/tracing/index.rst             |  2 +-
>     >  10 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
>     FYI Joel and I have revisited the definition of 3rd party packages
>     deciding what
>     we have is not right or clear defined.
>
>     Joel's view which he told me while he was driving and I hope I got
>     correct is:
>
>     1. There are packages we develop and maintain, mostly in the RTEMS
>     repo.
>
>     2. There are packages we have brought in that we maintain, for
>     example libbsd,
>     c11 support, etc. These packages include the ones we build via the
>     RSB. We
>     attempt to make sure they build on all BSPs but there can be limits.
>
>     3. External 3rd party packages, cFS/cFE, EPICS, YAFFS and Qt are
>     all examples.
>
>     This needs to be explained better in the documentation and the
>     excessive use of
>     third-party needs to be changed.
>
>
> Third party is something the project does not directly maintain or 
> package.
>
> Libbsd is not third party. The code largely comes from somewhere else 
> but as a package, it is owned by the project.
>
> It us third party in the same sense as the legal definition of being 
> independent of the main parties.

Yes, this makes sense, but this patch is a spell change. I would like to 
use the wording in Wikepedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_software_component

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