[ell-i-developers] Re: Github repository sections
- From: Pekka Nikander <pekka.nikander@xxxxxx>
- To: ell-i-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:56:14 +0200
> I have a confusion between the different repository sections, can you
> provide a short explanation what each of this is meant for?
>
> stm32flash
stm32flash is our copy of the stm32flash tool, which is a C program for using
the STM serial line flashing interface. It is an "official" ELL-i repo, at
least for now.
> stm32f0-barebone
stm32f0-barebone is a new repo, our fork of Nuutti's new repo that contains an
STM peripheral library based bare bones runtime. It is not an "official" ELL-i
repo, but an alternative to those who can bare a somewhat larger runtime but
want to work with the STM peripheral libraries. It should not be listed on the
web page.
> Runtime
That is the "new" ELL-i runtime that Ivan and I are actively working with. It
is not generally usable yet, but most probably will be in some 3-4 weeks. At
some point we have to rename this, perhaps to "ELL-i-Runtime", to better denote
that it is a core part of the ELL-i offering.
> Arduino
This repo has currently a dual role. Firstly, the ell-i, ell-i+concurrency and
oct9-demo branches are all snapshots of our "old" runtime, which in the end
just started to be too brittle. The ell-i branch is pretty stable, recommend
for general use at the moment, but does contain only the Arduino APIs. The
ell-i+concurrency contains also the Contiki APIs, and is able to communicate
with either TCP or UDP. However, it is already much less stable than the ell-i
branch. The oct9-demo branch is the newest one of the "old" runtime. However,
it is a disaster from the stability point of view. I can make semi-stable
binaries out of it, and I did for the October 9th demo, but I doubt anyone else
can.
Secondly, the ell-i-new branch is an Arduino IDE companion branch for the new
Ell-i runtime, which itself is in the Runtime repo. That branch is an
almost-direct copy of the official Arduino IDE (though not updated lately),
which just minor patches to make it to work with our runtime.
> Tools
This is the repo create by Antti, IIRC. It contains an python-version of the
stm32flash, plus maybe some other tools, I just don't remember. I no longer
remember what was the exact idea. Perhaps we should make it an official part
of the ELL-i offering, and rename it to ELL-i-Tools or something?
I hope I answered most of your questions. Feel free to ask more questions, or
perhaps again any of the ones I didn't answer.
--Pekka
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