On Thursday 09 July 2009, Zach Welch wrote: > However, > real "users" _can't_ do development, even if they can run build a source > release using configure and make.
That's sure helping in the development process. "Here, see if this patch fixes the problem for you." Without that sort of feedback loop, projects get nowhere. Also, keep in mind that anyone using a JTAG tool in their work is likely to be a developer already ... one fluent in low-level issues, in fact. There won't be many exceptions to that rule; and they'd be the kind of folk that *this* team doesn't address, much less deal with directly. Using JTAG for pass/fail board testing on a factory floor, maybe ... rather than the people who use results of such tests to figure out if the board can just get a partia repair. > It is _those_ individuals that should never be asked to build from the > SVN repository. We have established that this community does have such > individuals (via one or more vendor); those individuals can test a > nightly build or wait for their distributor (i.e. a developer) to > produce one for them with their fix using 'make dist'. Right? No. If they're getting support from their distributor, we aren't invoved anyway. (They're more part of the vendor's community than ours...) I think anyone getting support from the developers needs to be willing to test patches. If they weren't willing to apply experimental patches and then rebuild, WTF would they expect to happen? - Dave _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
