> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  On Behalf Of Joerg Wunsch
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 2:13 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [avr-chat] GUI wrapper for avrdude
>
> Eric Weddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The real question on the table is, how to implement it given the
> > acceptance criteria of cross-platform GUI? That's a real technical
> > challenge right now.  Here's one idea: Java.
>
> There's already one existing Java project for an avrdude GUI, which
> appears to have some success (search avrfreaks.net for it).

Oh, I wasn't aware of it. I'll go look for it, thanks.

>  What I
> simply don't really like it, and where I've got my doubts it could be
> solved at all is that it reinvents the wheel, doesn't use the avrdude
> backend library, and thus is prone to always lag behind avrdude,
> trying catch-up games each time avrdude changes something.  To me, a
> tool based on the very same library as the CLI frontend is more
> guaranteed to synchronize support between both frontends.

Agreed.

Eric




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