Platform Builder

[rwas rwas]

That would be nice. Lot's of stuff would be nice.

At one time, linux was nearly impossible to use by
anyone but an expert. The linux movement slowly picked
up steam and developers developed all kinds of kewl
things like *drivers* and *install scripts*.

I had a similar question about a command line
interface. One fellow is actually working on that. I'm
waiting with anticipation for a stable version of
RTEMS that includes it. 

With linux it seemed that features and usability grew
with the patronage of the os. I think RTEMS will be no
different. Unfortunately, it's a bit like catch22. To
get more features, we need more patronage, to get more
patronage, we need RTEMS to be easier to use.

It looks like RTEMS will suffer the same kind of slow
growing pains linux did. I can only hope we can learn
from the linux example to expedite growth of RTEMS for
the RTOS community.

--- Gerke Kok <gerke.kok at tpa-nl.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> this here will be kind of cursing in the church as
> we say in Dutch but would
> it be a nice idea to have a TCL/TK program that will
> automate the setup of
> an initial build dir for a new program? So a
> starting user would only have
> to check some boxes and press the OK-button and end
> up with a build-dir with
> all that is needed to compile a working hello-world
> program and
> network-telnet-shell and anything the user asked for
> in the 'wizard'?
> I myself do not have enough knowledge of the TCL/TK
> stuff but would like to
> have a kit/wizard like it described. It would
> enlarge the public that wants
> to use RTEMS because the start-up of the first proto
> would be much faster.
> If only we had this for the x86 port we could
> already be a nice match
> against windows NT embedded.
> This was just an idea, please don't tell me to just
> do it myself: I just
> don't have the funds/time to do so. And ideas can be
> useful to I hope.
> wkr,
> Gerke


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