[Tinyos-1.2wg] Re: 1.2 toolset

[Ion Yannopoulos]

David Gay wrote:

>Another toolset issue (AVR only): do we want to update to a more
>recent avr-libc (we're using one from May 2003)?
>
>Problem: a lot of the stuff we're using from it is now deprecated
>and/or removed. So there would need to be a bunch of changes in
>platform/mica*
>
>We should probably switch for 2.0. Not sure for 1.2. 
>
The answer for 1.2 is that we don't upgrade moving from 1.1 to 1.2 
unless this is required for stability. If this necessitates changes in 
platform/mica we should do it if it will make things more stable. If not 
such changes in the 1.x branch can wait for 1.3 (the 1.x unstable path 
after 1.2 is released.)

>Not sure how people using both would deal with this (i.e., us ;-))
>  
>
I'm of the opinion that we should view the 2.0 tree as distinct from the 
1.0 tree. If we need to replicate what's in tools in order to allow the 
freedom to change things that need changing then that's fine. So we 
would deal with this by having distinct toolsets. That's not the end of 
the world: we are only talking about two different versions, one old, 
and one new. But it would be unfortunate if we couldn't upgrade and 
improve tool support when we switch major version numbers, I think.

Ion


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