RE: [avrdude-dev] [patch #6543] serial-over-tcpip support for cygwin

[Weddington, Eric]

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> support for cygwin
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> As Weddington, Eric wrote:
> 
> > It would be nice if any new functionality could also be ported to
> > mingw/windows builds of avrdude. I would think that it's best to
> > have the same functionality across all ports.
> 
> That's going to be a major undertaking though.  Features like that one
> usually arise out of someone really needing it, so this has been filed
> for Posix systems some years ago.  Rewriting this for the Win32 API
> will be a completely different job.  What the patch suggests is to
> basically use the Posix implementation on top of Cygwin, as a quick
> way to provide the same functionality for Win32 users, at the cost of
> depending on cygwin1.dll.
> 
> Of course, a plain Win32 API network client implementation would
> obviate the need for the Cygwin patch.

Yes, I know what I'm asking for here. ;-)