[Tinyos-devel] TinyOS 2.1 install instruction?

[Philip Levis]

On Jul 3, 2008, at 6:45 PM, Matt Welsh wrote:

> I think you are going to get a lot of pushback if you abandon  
> Cygwin. Not everyone is comfortable in a UNIX environment. Would  
> love to hear more about Jetos and how big it is compared to Cygwin.  
> (And wouldn't it be nice to use an open source solution rather than  
> VMware player? Xen?)

There's no question we to continue to support Cygwin. My guess is that  
what we'll do is roll out 2.1 for Linux, then follow up with all of  
the Cygwin packages 1-2 days later.

I think the benefit of ease-of-use and installation simplicity of  
VMWare player outweighs the open source fuzziness of Xen. It's  
intended to be a trivial way for someone running Windows to install a  
complete, working TinyOS environment. Someone who wants to use Xen can  
probably just install TinyOS on their Xen image. That being said, if  
someone made a Xen image and instructions on how to use it, adding  
instructions to the wiki would be very easy...

Phil