As Joerg Wunsch wrote: > I just bumped the version in configure.ac to "6.0rc1"; it has > been at "5.11svn" for way too long now. Yes, this is a strong > indication we are heading for a release. ;-)
I'd like to invite everyone to browse through the bug and patch trackers. You might apply everything where there is clearly no doubt, and no need for further prior discussions in the group. Be careful to not introduce regressions right before a release though. When adding new device entries, it's best if they could be derived from an existing one using the new "parent" keyword, to avoid too much copy&paste. Don't forget to update documentation where needed (the list of supported programmers and devices in the documentation is auto-generated). Personally, my time budget is too limited to handle all of the existing submissions without delaying the new release indefinitely, I'm afraid. Upon a user request, I added the "-l logfile" option yesterday: it calls freopen(logfile, "w", stderr), in order to redirect messages to "logfile" which would normally go to stderr. The user in question was trying to invoke AVRDUDE from an environment which could not handle shell-style stdio redirection (AVR Studio 4, in this case), but I figured having such an option would be of general value to many users. In particular, when recording debugging traces, we can now tell the users to use "-l trace.txt -vvvv", and submit the resulting trace.txt (e.g., as part of a bug tracker). The only drawback of freopen() is that it closes the old stderr first. If subsequently, opening the new logfile fails, there is no stderr to complain to anymore; thus, I write the complaint to stdout then, and exit at that point. (I tried using fopen(), then close(stderr), and assing the new stream to stderr. However, this fails under MinGW as stderr is not an lvalue there.) -- cheers, Joerg .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) _______________________________________________ avrdude-dev mailing list avrdude-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev