Re: Moving avrdude to Git ?

2021-12-03 Thread Hannes Weisbach
> Am 03.12.2021 um 02:33 schrieb Xiaofan Chen : > > On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 7:29 AM Hannes Weisbach > wrote: >> >> Just a comment about pthread dependencies, I think I’ve made before. If >> nothing changed, >> only the ftdi_syncbb programmer used that and it was required only, because >>

Re: Moving avrdude to Git ?

2021-12-02 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Hannes Weisbach wrote: > Just a comment about pthread dependencies, I think I’ve made > before. If nothing changed, only the ftdi_syncbb programmer used > that and it was required only, because buffer limits of the FTDI > chip were ignored. Given proper handling of buffer sizes (see > avrftdi)

Re: Moving avrdude to Git ?

2021-12-02 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 7:29 AM Hannes Weisbach wrote: > > Just a comment about pthread dependencies, I think I’ve made before. If > nothing changed, > only the ftdi_syncbb programmer used that and it was required only, because > buffer limits > of the FTDI chip were ignored. Given proper

Re: Moving avrdude to Git ?

2021-12-02 Thread Hannes Weisbach
Hey, > MinGW turned out to be "good enough" for me, that's why I even did it > that way. Nobody else volunteered to run Windows release builds, > despite of many users asking for it. > > But if there's a MSVC path, I wouldn't mind, as long as it doesn't break > the GCC path for unixoid systems.

Re: Moving avrdude to Git ?

2021-12-02 Thread Joerg Wunsch
Trying a mass-reply to all the answers that arrived. As greu...@mgtek.com wrote: > It is certainly too much work for a single person, and I really do > appreciate that you are donating your spare time to keep avrdude alive! Thanks! > Speaking of testing, I was wondering what kind of tests you

Re: Moving avrdude to Git ?

2021-12-01 Thread Britton Kerin
On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 9:17 AM wrote: > > > > PS : You're maybe "alone" in the project because the official repo is > > > not on GitHub ! > > > > I'm not so sure about that. > > > > What I really don't need is people sending more pull requests. It took me > years > > to find the time and energy

Re: Moving avrdude to Git ?

2021-11-30 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 6:15 AM Joerg Wunsch wrote: > > As Doom wrote: > > > Regarding the already allocated name, would you reconsider the question to > > move to GitHub > > if I get back *avrdude* GitHub account name for the project ? > > Again, it's not a matter of Git or not, it's a matter of

Re: Moving avrdude to Git ?

2021-11-30 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As greu...@mgtek.com wrote: > I would have never dared to suggest moving the AVRDUDE project to a > Microsoft company :-) There's even one committer from Microsoft aboard, Wes Witt. ;-) When they tried to get a foot into the Fruit-Pi community by porting Windows and tools to it, they were also

Re: Moving avrdude to Git ?

2021-11-30 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Doom wrote: > Regarding the already allocated name, would you reconsider the question to > move to GitHub > if I get back *avrdude* GitHub account name for the project ? Again, it's not a matter of Git or not, it's a matter of someone converting the remaining infrastructure. I can export the

Re: Moving avrdude to Git ?

2021-11-30 Thread Doom
greu...@mgtek.com 22:42 >> Do you own avrdude? I just pinged the user asking for exactly this... No, not me. Just I can ping as well or do more if needed. But I do not have much time too. So if it is to not move to GitHub after, I prefer not spending time on it.

RE: Moving avrdude to Git ?

2021-11-30 Thread greuelm
> > Unfortunately, someone already allocated the "avrdude" user or group > > on Github so we can't have that. :-( Having it there would have been > > my most favorite option if we want to move somewhere else. I would have never dared to suggest moving the AVRDUDE project to a Microsoft company

Re: Moving avrdude to Git ?

2021-11-30 Thread Doom
First, many thanks for you huge work on avrdude, and thanks for sharing it. Regarding the already allocated name, would you reconsider the question to move to GitHub if I get back *avrdude* GitHub account name for the project ? For the issues, it seems to be possible to import them in GitHub

Re: Moving avrdude to Git ?

2021-11-30 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Doom wrote: > But don't you think it's time to move to Git ? The problem is not Git, the problem is the remaining infrastructure. I could probably easily convert everything to Git on Savannah (they offer it, obviously), but some people expressed interest in moving to a "more modern" platform