[avrdude-dev] About avrdude-gui

[Joerg Wunsch]

I recently met Jörg Lachmann, the author of avrdude-gui who also lives
here in Dresden.

We've been discussing the idea one of the users once had (I forgot
whether it's been on avr-gcc-list, or maybe at avrfreaks.net) to
integrate avrdude-gui with avrdude, rather than have it as a
standalone utility.

We agreed that this idea has some merit.  Having to call an external
utility to do the actual job is a nuisance anyway, let alone different
problems between platforms.  Also, by integrating it into the same
source tree, the GUI could immediately pick up newly added devices
from the config file, rather than playing catch-up with the base
avrdude.

Jörg mentioned that he'd take this occasion to rewrite the GUI using
yet another toolkit from scratch, this times using fltk (see
http://www.fltk.org/ ) as it appears fltk is comparably small.

I think if we agree the integration is a Good Thing and should happen,
we should also clean up the directory structure a bit.  Right now,
most of the stuff is just in the top-level directory, except for the
texinfo documentation which is in doc/, unlike the man page which is
not in doc/. ;-)

Any opinions?

-- 
cheers, J"org               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL

http://www.sax.de/~joerg/                        NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)