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

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Weddington, Eric wrote:

> > TinyXML++ at a glance looks like it might do the trick.
> 
> That's good to know. :-) Thanks for the recommendation.

Alas, it looks like it's C++ (only).  That would mean to convert
AVRDUDE into C++.  Not a bad thing as such (it would allow to
implement a lot of things much cleaner), but another truckload of
work.

> > As to 
> > converting to XML (the actual avrdude.conf and the 
> > read_conf() is all; right?), that shouldn't be hard at all.
> 
> Totally agreed.

The key point is to define a good, usable, and extensible structure,
i.e. an XSD schema the XML file(s) can be validated against.  It's
correct that the AVRDUDE application "in the field" does not have to
validate the XML file, but during the development, an XML schema
should be there the file can be validated against.  If we continue
allocating entries "ad hoc" (i.e. the way it has been done in
avrdude.conf's grammar), after only a short period of time, we'll end
up combining the mess of the current avrdude.conf with the bloat of
XML.  It's not there were no examples of that kind of mess, and we
don't have to walk very far away to see them...

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