> -----Original Message----- > From: Dave N6NZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:57 PM > To: Weddington, Eric > Cc: Joerg Wunsch; avrdude-dev; SimonQian > Subject: Re: [avrdude-dev] Avrdude Gui problem > > > Weddington, Eric wrote: >
> You still haven't said why exactly. Other than examining and > tweaking > fuse settings, programming a uCtlr just doesn't seem like a highly > interactive process to me. Describe this user and the problem a > full-blown gui solves for him. Is it simply the matter of > finding the > right command line options? - Fuse settings (as you mentioned) - Beginning user, who needs the comfort of a GUI. University student first learning embedded systems. Electronic tech on the factory floor who is not as comfortable with a CLI. As another argument, look at all the people who use AVR Studio and the GUI programming interface (note that there were more than 300,000 downloads of AVR Studio in 2007). AVR Studio comes with a command line programmer too (which is called from the GUI), but there are many Windows users who are just more comfortable with the GUI, for whatever reason. I'd much rather serve the whole spectrum of users and offer both CLI and GUI. 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. ;-) _______________________________________________ avrdude-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev
