RE: [avrdude-dev] Avrdude Gui problem

[Weddington, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave N6NZ [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:57 PM
> To: Weddington, Eric
> Cc: Joerg Wunsch; avrdude-dev; SimonQian
> Subject: Re: [avrdude-dev] Avrdude Gui problem
> 
> 
> Weddington, Eric wrote:
> 

> You still haven't said why exactly.  Other than examining and 
> tweaking 
> fuse settings, programming a uCtlr just doesn't seem like a highly 
> interactive process to me.  Describe this user and the problem a 
> full-blown gui solves for him.  Is it simply the matter of 
> finding the 
> right command line options?

- Fuse settings (as you mentioned)
- Beginning user, who needs the comfort of a GUI. University student
first learning embedded systems. Electronic tech on the factory floor
who is not as comfortable with a CLI.

As another argument, look at all the people who use AVR Studio and the
GUI programming interface (note that there were more than 300,000
downloads of AVR Studio in 2007). AVR Studio comes with a command line
programmer too (which is called from the GUI), but there are many
Windows users who are just more comfortable with the GUI, for whatever
reason.

I'd much rather serve the whole spectrum of users and offer both CLI and
GUI.

Besides, it seems that it is a difficult challenge. There have been
several people who have tried to build a GUI for avrdude and have failed
for one reason or another. I'm beginning to think that it can't be done.
;-)