Build and Package Management: Apache Mynewt Newt Tool Comparison - James Pace, Runtime
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2017-02-28

Build and Package Management: Apache Mynewt Newt Tool and Comparison with Other Build Tools - James Pace, Runtime

Newt, the build and package management tool for Apache Mynewt, is an unheralded yet integral component in the composition of an expansive OS for embedded. Newt includes: 

- Composablity: open project collaboration; maintaining private code trees; enforced source code layout.
- Build: config; multiple targets; source code layout including 3rd party SDKs. 
- Package Management: versioning and stability. 
- Embedded artifacts: debugger maintenance; generation of flash images, upgradable images. 
- Introspection: size; packages; versions.
- Enforced hierarchy: HW MCU; HW BSP; Application. 
- System Definition: Split images for upgrade; RAM locs; Flash / persistent storage.

The talk will also compare/contrast with mechanisms such as kconfig and discuss approaches to leveraging both environments.

About James Pace
Runtime is an early stage company providing significant contributions to open source for the IoT / embedded community. Apache Mynewt, an incubation stage project under the Apache Software Foundation, aims to provide an OS and development framework for embedded developers everywhere! Aditi Hilbert architected security implementations for a number of embedded / IoT products, including Silver Spring Networks' Industrial IoT network, where more that 23 million devices were deployed in demanding utility and smart city environments. This included SoC-level and protocol-level design considerations.