RE: [avrdude-dev] Avrdude Gui problem

[Weddington, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Perks [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:28 PM
> To: Weddington, Eric; avrdude-dev
> Subject: Re: [avrdude-dev] Avrdude Gui problem
> 
> Weddington, Eric wrote:
> > 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.
> > ;-)
> >   
> The problem has been that people have tried to put the GUI on 
> top of the 
> command line executable. As Joerg points out the correct approach and 
> the one more likely to lead to a successful project is to put 
> the GUI on 
> top of the AVRDude API.

My comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek. The main problem seems to be
follow-through: willing to see that the software is completed and
debugged into a usable piece of software. This usually takes a certain
amount of commitment to the project. This is what seems to be lacking
the most. A lot of people talk about what it should, or shouldn't
contain, but not many people seem to be willing to help code it up.

> Note that the GUI design and implementation proceeds we may 
> need to tune 
> or add to the API that already exists in AVRDude. As I said a few 
> appends ago we need to flesh out the UI design but I think it is 
> eminently doable.

I'm happy to hear that! :-)