Re: [avr-chat] Re: WinAvr 2005... compile problems

[Jeff Barlow]

"E. Weddington" <address@hidden>  wrote:

>I would like to hear *thoughtful* opinions about this subject.

Okay, I'll try.

First a simple fact: 'A' is not equal to 'a'. You ignore that at
your peril.

I started coding way back in the bad old days. A lot of old
hardware I've worked on wouldn't support lower case. A lot of
klugey things were done to work around that limitation. This is
history. Let's not live in the past.

Make is a Unix creature and was designed to work in an
environment that used the full 7 bit ASCII code set. The world is
full of make files that rely on that fact.

We are seeing quite a bit of talk about creating a consistent
avr-gcc working environment that allows one to move projects
between *nix and windows tool sets. 

A windows only, uni-case variant of make may be appropriate for
developing code to run on windows. In a cross platform
development environment it would only make life harder for most
of us.

-- 
Later,
Jeff