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Re: [avrdude-dev] AVRDUDE+libusb, compiling and running on Windows
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Didrik Madheden |
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Re: [avrdude-dev] AVRDUDE+libusb, compiling and running on Windows |
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Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:21:32 +0100 |
On 21 March 2014 11:55, Joerg Wunsch <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Where and how does one submit patches?
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> Please, attach it to the open bug report:
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> https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?41854
Done.
>> * For the source distribution, perhaps exclude non-supported
>> programming methods at build time instead of compiling them in as
>> stubs that generate an error at runtime. Is there an infrastructural
>> reason why this is done? To make avrdude.conf generation easier/less
>> error-throwing-prone?
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> Yes, it is. Albeit there are counter-examples, too. Parallel-port
> programmers are indeed not generated into avrdude.conf if AVRDUDE
> doesn't have parallel-port support on a particular OS (like, OSX for
> example, which simply never ran on hardware that offers a parellel
> port).
About that... Not everyone who's running the OSX operating system
choose to do so on an officially sanctioned white and shiny/brushed
aluminum box. This may not be a use case to care much about,
especially considering parallel ports have been dead for a few years,
but I like to point this out.
/Didrik