Re: [avrdude-dev] Re: [AVR-Chat] AVRDUDE 5.0 BETA Release

[E. Weddington]

Brian Dean wrote:

> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 04:44:05PM -0500, Mike Perks wrote:
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> > Windows is not my platform of choice but it certainly is the most
> > popular "choice". I don't quite understand why it takes so long to
> > produce a Windows version.
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> Like any open source project, we're doing this in our spare time, as a
> service to the community.  Since it's a volunteer effort, the work
> gets done as folks have time to do it.  But geez, the release was only
> cut on Saturday and on short notice at that - please be patient.  The
> binaries will be available soon.

Also, the main Windows developer tries not to do too much on weekends 
anyway. ;-) Plus he's not subscribed to the address@hidden list.

You always have the option to build the binary yourself; some build 
instructions are in the avrdude user manual. Note that it requires you 
to be somewhat familiar with Cygwin / POSIX environment.

Eric