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Hello, everyone! I'm Priya, an undergraduate majoring in computer science. I am interested to work on AXIOM remote for gsoc 2020. I'm a beginner so please guide me :)

great, welcome!

Yes and also I've gone through the C/C++ challenge

do you have any questions or things you want to learn more about?

great, please do

morning folks!

good day

vup: sorry for the late reply, the main pro's for an approach like yocto buildroot is the possibility to strip down the rootfs and the guarantee that the distributed setup is always the same both build systems generate a *nix based system and can integrate with update mechanisms for customers. For development, yocto can generate an SDK that ensures that everyone is running the same toolchain and it can also integrate with qemu.

would you prefer to install a huge SDK, build a new rootfs for hours, write it to the SD card just to find out that you need a newer version or a different tool, or would you rather want to use the package manager to simply install it from the internet? :)

metal_dent[m]: which task do you want to apply to?

For the project AXIOM Remote

axiom remote is a standlaone device, which would control the camera via usb

okay, cool 😅

let's split the 'customer' part into 'end user' and 'developer' because they have very different use cases

but for the typical development/prototyping case, a 'build system' like yocto would be mostly 'in the way of getting work done'

for prototyping I agree it can sometimes get in the way of getting things done but for development it really ensures a coherent development environment between all developers and also for packaging it for end users, they can download a prebuilt package and don't necessarily need to build it.

and from the developer PoV, I've always found them to be a PITA which is the reason why we went for Arch Linux on the AXIOM in the first place ... you miss a tool for a task, hook up the camera and get the package ... the package is not available? grab the sources and build them ...

there we want to prevent the user from installing anything unless they confirm that they know what they are doing and that they are aware that those changes might affect the camera

gsalazar: for the "but it works on my system part" we are already using docker to build everything and so far that seems to have worked fine in making assembling the firmware reproduceable

probably works fine as well, BAndiT1983?

metal_dent[m]: either version should work, we are not using anything special there

why is it hard to find? it's on the microchip site

yeah I found that one but it requires lots of setting-up and 2.1 is already present in the AUR 😅

setup is also not that long, but try AUR, although i can't guarantee as many of them are not that good maintained and are maybe broken

okay, let me try using v2.1 if that won't work i'll do using 2.3 :)

off to bed

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