[Tinyos-8051wg] Re: [Tinyos-2.0wg] TinyOS 2.0 'tools' directory

[David Gay]

On 4/20/05, Buonadonna, Phil <phil.buonadonna at intel.com> wrote:
> Looking at the present directory, it seems there are 6 major
> categorizations to the types of tools. The '+' indicates something
> critical to the basic function of tos programs.
> 
>         - Building TOS distributions/packages
>         + Building/installing tos programs (make, set-mote-id, uisp,
> channelgen, spec files for gcc)
>         + Running TOS programs (SerialForwarder)
>         - Simulators
>         - Misc applications (Surge, oscope, TASK/tinydb)
>         - Analysis (some matlab code)

There's an important distinction which this doesn't cover, which is
who needs it when:

- there's stuff that is used by TinyOS maintainers, e.g.:
  - rpm specification files
  - sources for the tinyos-tools rpm (uisp, various scripts, etc)
  - etc
- stuff that is used when developing TinyOS applications, e.g.:
  - the make system
  - tossim support files (this is debatably in the next category)
- stuff that is used when running TinyOS applications, e.g.:
  - serial forwarder
  - application GUIs

I'd definitely like to see the maintainer stuff off in a subdirectory
of its own, with a proper Makefile for building and installing
everything which belongs in the tinyos-tools rpm.

I guess that means I'd favour at the toplevel:
- sdk: as now, but without the tinyos-tools stuff
- install: stuff that belongs in tinyos-tools
- valueadd: as above (I agree that I don't quite like the name ;-))

David


David

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