[Tinyos-devel] Re: [Tinyos-help] .platform question

[John Griessen]

Kevin Klues wrote:
> You can essentially set TOSHMAKE_PATH to be anything really, so if you
> wanted to put the .target file in the platform directory I guess there's
> really nothing preventing you from doing that.  I'm confused about the
> advantage of having it there though?  
The advantage I was thinking of was documenting it with a readme.txt file that says
you got here by a Makefile include, but I see how you are going to have multiple platform dirs.
I'd just leave it the way it is, and ask for a readme.txt file about relation of
platform dirs, .platform files, a_platform.target files and TOSMAKE_PATH.


> There's also something to be said about following the standard structure so
> that those who are familiar with it don't have to sift through documentation
> to figure out what is going on. 

Sure.  I just couldn't sift through and find this info before just now that you said it.

I'm going to write it up in the wiki, but I also ask for a platforms-contrib.txt file to
go in the distribution of T2 in support/make.  I'll write it to everyone's satisfaction.

John Griessen

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