RE: [avrdude-dev] Re: Avrdude GUI and Avr Studio Plugin

[Weddington, Eric]

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> > And can we
> > turf out the lexer/parser?!?! :)
> 
> When using some XML format, probably, albeit that's the least of the
> problems.  lex/yacc is pretty simple to handle (once you grasped it,
> basically it's a BNF with actions added to it), and it's going to be
> much more of a challenge to find an XML parser library that is going
> to be equally well supported on all the platforms AVRDUDE is running
> on (Windows, MacOS X, Linux, *BSD, Solaris).

I'm not sure if platform support is really the issue, but finding a decent XML 
lib that doesn't bloat out the program. IMHO, we don't need XML validation 
support.

But as you said, someone needs to make sure that transitioning to XML actually 
happens. ;-)