Jeremy Lee wrote:
> As we know, in the embedded realm using a different compiler can
> seriously throw out your timing loops.

Only if "we" is restricted to incompetent firmware engineers that assume
fixed timing from compiler generated code in the first place.

> But I've compiled the 3.20 toolchain on my Dreamhost server anyway,
> and if I can just hack together a good PHP front-end that pulls from
> a GIT repo... Imagine coding, building, and testing, all through a
> browser.

Just a comment from someone watching this from the sidelines:  You may have
done some good work, and it may even be of use to others for certain
specific types of projects, but the collaboration you seek is unlikely to
happen.  This is your pet project.  A few others might use pieces of it, but
that's probably as far as it will go.  People spend their above and beyond
time on their own projects.  To others, your stuff will be just another
piece that is a means to their ends.

Trying to set up a fancy build environment will probably decrease the use of
your stuff, not increase it.  It might be different if you were in the big
machine software world where the kind of stuff you talk about above is
probably a lot closer to how things are normally done.  I'm sure some folks
here are also plugged into that world and probably know what you're talking
about.  However, I for one find your paragraph above largely gobbledygook.
Whatever it is you are setting up, I'm not likely to ever go near it.

I'm not inclined to go grabbing other people's code anyway (99.9% of it
sucks and it takes longer to find any rare useful bits and integrate them
into what I'm doing than to just write it exactly as I want it in the first
place), but if I was I'd just want the code so I could build it on my
machine using my tools.  Building it on some remote server with someone
else's unknown tool chain seems both pointless and a recipe for disaster to
me.


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