Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Øyvind Harboe
> I don't have commit access so I'll email it to the list once I've got it put > together. Great! The idea is that we can then have one release coordinator(Rick Altherr) and the other committers pitch in as well. -- Øyvind Harboe http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html ARM7 ARM9 XScale Cortex JTAG d

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Rick Altherr
On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:20 PM, Øyvind Harboe wrote: It sounds like there is agreement that we need a release coordinator. Since I haven't heard anyone jumping at the chance, I'll throw my name in. Super! Can you create a file in svn trunk with a list of things to be fixed? I think we shoul

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Øyvind Harboe
> It sounds like there is agreement that we need a release coordinator. Since > I haven't heard anyone jumping at the chance, I'll throw my name in. Super! Can you create a file in svn trunk with a list of things to be fixed? I think we should have a quality first, no time schedule policy and a

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Rick Altherr
On Dec 1, 2008, at 10:09 PM, Øyvind Harboe wrote: Without such a person, the stability of the branch is at risk. True. But there also needs to be a consensus about what 1.0 should include. "The person" could drive such a consensus of course. -- Øyvind Harboe http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Duane Ellis
rick> Then you probably haven't seen 'make distclean' either Oh I have - and things deep in the bowels of GDB and GCC In fact, I have my own "googlewhack" So that -it remains a google wack, I must spell it out... goto google and type my name, the digit 1, a space, and the word y a i p. Sometim

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Duane Ellis
Oyvind> But there also needs to be a consensus about what 1.0 should include. Getting "consensus" is the best choice of action. I think what we in the USA call - a "Laundry List" A big list of things to do, you do not do them all. You do the most pressing ones. The important thing is

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Duane Ellis
Oyvind> But there also needs to be a consensus about what 1.0 should include. Getting "consensus" is the best choice of action. I think what we in the USA call - a "Laundry List" A big list of things to do, you do not do them all. You do the most pressing ones. The important thing is

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Rick Altherr
On Dec 1, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Duane Ellis wrote: Theodore A. Roth wrote I just did a 'make distcheck' on the 1.0 branch and it failed. Thanks. And I've used GNU and LINUX stuff since Slackware-95 - and I still to this day - I come across stuff I had never seen before. -Duane.

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Duane Ellis
Theodore A. Roth wrote >> I just did a 'make distcheck' on the 1.0 branch and it failed. Thanks. And I've used GNU and LINUX stuff since Slackware-95 - and I still to this day - I come across stuff I had never seen before. -Duane. ___ Openocd-deve

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Øyvind Harboe
> Without such a person, the stability of the branch is at risk. True. But there also needs to be a consensus about what 1.0 should include. "The person" could drive such a consensus of course. -- Øyvind Harboe http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html ARM7 ARM9 XScale Cortex JTAG debugger and flash p

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Rick Altherr
On Dec 1, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Rick Altherr wrote: There is never a good time to make a branch. That's why you choose tools that allow easy merging between branches and the trunk. I wouldn't say that the 1.0 branch was cut too early. It isn't entirely clear that all of the changes committe

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Øyvind Harboe
> But easy to rectify with a merge rather than recutting the branch. Also, > just the commits related to the syntax changes can be merged in without > taking all the other changes made to ToT. Just because the syntax changes > should be taken for 1.0 doesn't mean everything else in HEAD should be

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Spen
> > Spen: Should we delete the 1.0 branch for now and cut a new > one once it is time? > > Porting back from svn trunk makes little sense at this point > since we have changed the syntax so much and I'd be very much > against using the old syntax in the 1.0 release > > -- we could delete

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Rick Altherr
On Dec 1, 2008, at 12:16 PM, Øyvind Harboe wrote: There is never a good time to make a branch. True, but there is such a thing as a bad time to make a branch. Cutting the 1.0 release *before* we have the syntax changes in was/ is a bad time. -- Øyvind Harboe http://www.zylin.com/zy1000

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Øyvind Harboe
> There is never a good time to make a branch. True, but there is such a thing as a bad time to make a branch. Cutting the 1.0 release *before* we have the syntax changes in was/is a bad time. -- Øyvind Harboe http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html ARM7 ARM9 XScale Cortex JTAG debugger and flash p

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Rick Altherr
On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Øyvind Harboe wrote: Subversion makes it very easy to merge from trunk to branch. If _all_ of the changes made to trunk should be pulled into the branch, it can be done with 2 commands while recreating the branch takes 4. Someone should review the changes com

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Øyvind Harboe
> Subversion makes it very easy to merge from trunk to branch. If _all_ of > the changes made to trunk should be pulled into the branch, it can be done > with 2 commands while recreating the branch takes 4. Someone should review > the changes committed since the branch was made and make a list of

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Øyvind Harboe
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Theodore A. Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Øyvind Harboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is this broken in svn trunk? >> >> If it doesn't work in svn trunk, then, for sure, it won't work in the >> 1.0 branch. > > Yes, it is broken in

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Theodore A. Roth
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Øyvind Harboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this broken in svn trunk? > > If it doesn't work in svn trunk, then, for sure, it won't work in the > 1.0 branch. Yes, it is broken in trunk. Attached is a patch against trunk. Ignore the previous patch since this one i

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Rick Altherr
On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:27 AM, Øyvind Harboe wrote: Is this broken in svn trunk? If it doesn't work in svn trunk, then, for sure, it won't work in the 1.0 branch. Spen: Should we delete the 1.0 branch for now and cut a new one once it is time? Porting back from svn trunk makes little sense

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Øyvind Harboe
Is this broken in svn trunk? If it doesn't work in svn trunk, then, for sure, it won't work in the 1.0 branch. Spen: Should we delete the 1.0 branch for now and cut a new one once it is time? Porting back from svn trunk makes little sense at this point since we have changed the syntax so much an

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-12-01 Thread Theodore A. Roth
Hi, On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Spen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have created a release 1.0 branch: > svn://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/openocd/branches/openocd_1_0_branch > if no major issues are found after say 1 month then we will tag a release. > > I can test the st/pic32 targ

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Schwingen
Øyvind Harboe wrote: >> For 1.0, do we want to consider removing support for all the old syntaxes? > > Yes! :-) I would also suggest to only support the new syntax (and make sure all supplied example files use it ;-)). A 1.0 release sounds like a good point for such a cut. cu Michael _

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-11-25 Thread Spen
> > For 1.0, do we want to consider removing support for all the > old syntaxes? Being a major release (i.e. the first one), > such a change would be reasonable. The downsides are the > loss of immediate backwards compatibility with old config > files. The manual already contains an appendi

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-11-25 Thread Spen
> > Another thing about testing for 1.0. > > *Before* reporting bugs on 1.0, check that it works in SVN trunk. > > We aren't fixing bugs in 1.0, we're backporting fixes from > SVN HEAD, maybe. > currently we have a 1.0 branch - until we finally tag a 1.0 release any major bugs will be merged

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-11-25 Thread Øyvind Harboe
> For 1.0, do we want to consider removing support for all the old syntaxes? Yes! :-) Another thing about testing for 1.0. *Before* reporting bugs on 1.0, check that it works in SVN trunk. We aren't fixing bugs in 1.0, we're backporting fixes from SVN HEAD, maybe. -- Øyvind Harboe http://www.

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-11-24 Thread Rick Altherr
On Nov 24, 2008, at 3:24 AM, Spen wrote: Hi, I have created a release 1.0 branch: svn://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/openocd/branches/openocd_1_0_branch if no major issues are found after say 1 month then we will tag a release. I can test the st/pic32 targets, if anyone has any free time t

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-11-24 Thread Carlos Antunes
Spen wrote: > I have created a release 1.0 branch: > svn://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/openocd/branches/openocd_1_0_branch > if no major issues are found after say 1 month then we will tag a release. > > I can test the st/pic32 targets, if anyone has any free time to check other > targets that wou

[Openocd-development] openocd 1.0 branch

2008-11-24 Thread Spen
Hi, I have created a release 1.0 branch: svn://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/openocd/branches/openocd_1_0_branch if no major issues are found after say 1 month then we will tag a release. I can test the st/pic32 targets, if anyone has any free time to check other targets that would be good. Like i