On 21 March 2014 11:55, Joerg Wunsch <[email protected]> wrote: >> Where and how does one submit patches? > > Please, attach it to the open bug report: > > https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?41854
Done. >> * For the source distribution, perhaps exclude non-supported >> programming methods at build time instead of compiling them in as >> stubs that generate an error at runtime. Is there an infrastructural >> reason why this is done? To make avrdude.conf generation easier/less >> error-throwing-prone? > > Yes, it is. Albeit there are counter-examples, too. Parallel-port > programmers are indeed not generated into avrdude.conf if AVRDUDE > doesn't have parallel-port support on a particular OS (like, OSX for > example, which simply never ran on hardware that offers a parellel > port). About that... Not everyone who's running the OSX operating system choose to do so on an officially sanctioned white and shiny/brushed aluminum box. This may not be a use case to care much about, especially considering parallel ports have been dead for a few years, but I like to point this out. /Didrik _______________________________________________ avrdude-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev
