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

[Weddington, Eric]

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> 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.

Bummer. We don't need 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.

I suppose so. It certainly would be the best way to do it.