On 13 October 2017 at 00:31, Chris Albertson <[email protected]> wrote:

> At the very least this could have been implemented with an HTML form
> where clicking on the parameter name brings up a pop-up wit the parameter's
> definition

Except that the INI file entries are entirely free-form, and are used
entirely unpredictably in the HAL file.

The HAL file can do pretty much the same thing as Simulink does.
Simulink and LabVIEW are the two "graphical" interfaces that most
closely relate to the function of the HAL file, and if you have ever
used them (I have) you would realise that that is just as much
"programming" as editing a text file.

Chris Morley did try to make PnCConf do exactly what you are
describing, but the complexity inherent in all the different ways that
Mesa cards can be connected together, along with the constant trickle
of new hardware from Mesa made that a Sisyphean task.

For a simple parallel-port based system Stepconf comes close to what
you describe. Except that you still do need to know what you want to
do.

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