Re: [avrdude-dev] [patch #7931] Extended parameters to specify usbtiny USB VID/PID

[Weddington, Eric]

Hi David,

I understand where you're coming from, but it sounds like you're going against 
the basic design of avrdude. The whole reason why avrdude.conf was created was 
to be able to add programmers (and devices) without having to recompile 
avrdude. That's a basic characteristic of the design of avrdude that was 
adopted very early on in its design.

The point *is* for anyone who creates a new programmer to update avrdude.conf 
*as an alternative* to adding new code to the program itself.

Eric Weddington

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of David A. Mellis
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:46 PM
> To: David A. Mellis; Rene Liebscher; address@hidden
> Subject: [avrdude-dev] [patch #7931] Extended parameters to specify
> usbtiny USB VID/PID
> 
> Follow-up Comment #2, patch #7931 (project avrdude):
> 
> Rene: interesting idea but that would require everyone who made a new
> programmer to update avrdude.conf and, more significantly, to get that
> updated
> avrdude.conf to everyone who wanted to use their programmer. That
> amounts to a
> significant overhead, particularly if you're trying to reach, for
> example,
> people getting their avrdude from WinAVR or CrossPack or similar who
> may not
> even be aware of the existence of the avrdude.conf. The advantage of
> command-line arguments is they can be specified after the fact, meaning
> that
> avrdude (or, at least, avrdude.conf) doesn't have to know in advance
> about
> every usbtiny-compatible programmer.
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