Re: [avrdude-dev] AVRDUDE 6.0 released

[Weddington, Eric]

Congratulations!!!! :-)

More inline below...

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Joerg Wunsch
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 6:11 PM
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> Subject: [avrdude-dev] AVRDUDE 6.0 released
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> . direct reading of ELF files (provided libelf with its header files
>   is around when ./configure runs)

Wow! This is a great feature!

> 
> . keep track of input file contents; when programming just a
>   bootloader only, nothing else but the bootloader area is touched
> 
> . config file can refer to a "parent" device; this dramatically
>   simplifies the config file as only those things that have been
>   changed compared to the parent must be specified anew
> 
> As an experiment, I'm trying to provide an "official" Win32 binary
> release for the first time.  It has been compiled using a MinGW32
> cross-compilation environment on my FreeBSD host system.  If this
> turns out to be a complete failure, please tell me, so I can stop this
> experiment, and leave Windows binaries to those who know more about
> the matter than me.  If it works, you might want to tell me
> nevertheless, so I might continue that service in future.

If for some reason it does not work out, give me a shout. I'll see what I can 
do.

Eric