RE: [avrdude-dev] I rearranged the build process a bit

[Eric Weddington]

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> Subject: [avrdude-dev] I rearranged the build process a bit
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> After cleaning up the source code, I've now been able to rearrange the
> build process so that the actual "meat" of avrdude is compiled into a
> libavrdude.a library, where main.c is currently the only known
> frontend program that is linked against that library.
> 
> The library is currently not being installed but only used internally.
> However, it would now not be too hard to add additional frontend
> programs that use the same backend functionality.  (Did anyone say
> "GUI frontend" here? :-)

Very nice! Thanks for doing this!
 
> Ideally, the stuff would better be moved into subdirs, but I hesitate
> to do this as CVS simply does not offer that feature, so we'd lose all
> file history.  However, in case anyone here plans to start out a new
> frontend, please start with a new subdir for it immediately.
> 
> As for the backend files, there's currently approximately one .h file
> per .c file, introducing all data types required for that
> implementation file, and declaring all exported functions and objects.
> All functions and objects that do not need to be visible outside their
> current compilation unit are declared "static".  There's still no
> really consistent naming style for all the exported library functions
> and objects, but this should at least reduce the name space pollution
> a bit so other frontends are less at risk of colliding with internal
> functions.

Smells like a future reorganization. ;-)

I would hope that it would be simple enough to rename them in an OO style of
<object>_<action>(). Some time in the future of course.

Eric