Fresco is a product support initiative
funded by the European Space Agency and operated in conjunction with Spacebel
Informatique, Belgium.
Objectives
The basic objective of the current Fresco project is the following: to
set-up a minimal support organization, headed by ESA, targeting the
Open-Source software products around the ERC32, to setup:
 | evolution as the user community requires,
| integration of the evolution and progress made by the various user
communities,
| minimal maintenance as product use increases, over the complete life
cycle of the products, which is anticipated to be in excess of 25
years, (for maintained satellites)
| continuity to provide an economic development solution for small
space projects,
| conserve the wealth and quality of the products,
| promotion, synchronization and merge of further developments. |
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For more information, see the original (out of date) ESTEC
Fresco page. |
By setting up an organization that can respond
as well to more demanding support and quality requirements, it is
anticipated that the following additional objectives can be met:
| an ESA support that decreases over time when large industrials start
to use the products (and contribute to the maintenance),
| a maintenance that satisfies industrial developers requirements,
| additional developments as industrial heavy users have specific
requirements,
| a continuing pressure on commercial products to meet at least the
quality of the free software,
| a quality and maintenance service that can satisfy the needs of long
duration programs,
| a potential framework for other related technologies, such as GNAT
support and GNU support for the ESA DSP’s. (The software policy
(ESA/IPC/96/73), corresponding to microprocessors procurement policy,
established as the supported programming languages: C (ANSI/ISO 9899)
and Ada83 (ISO/IEC 8652:1987). Later C++ (ISO/IEC FDIS 14882) and
Ada95 (ISO/IEC 8652:1995) are intended to be added, once they have
proven their maturity.) |
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For downloads, see the download
page. |
