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originally posted by mountain8848@Apr 20 2005, 07:48 AM
maybe microtronix's linux distribution for nios ii is a good reference for you. and i think the "installer" should do something to implement the idea as jesse said. --- Quote End ---
I agree the installer have to do the real work about modifying files, adding things and so on...
My concern is not about putting everything spreaded out in the
c:\altera\kits\nios2 directory, like the linux distribution currently does, but to create -another- directory under
c:\altera\kits that contains everything (for example, I would like to have all the linux distribution under
c:\altera\kits\linux\* instead of having it spread out in many places). in that way people will know exactly what is provided by Altera and what is provided by third parties...
That requires at least the following things:
- tell Quartus about additional libraries
- tell SOPCBuilder about additional components
- tell Eclipse about additional plugins
These things can be done by now using mostly manual configurations... it would be nice to have the possibility to just put there a directory, and letting the system find out what is in... In practice something like what happens for each component, where the class.ptf tells SOPCBuilder about the existence of a component. Whenever SOPCBuilder finds a class.ptf, it knows what to do with it and what to do with the component that it is implementing...
bye
Paolo
Honored Contributor
