no worries  matt. i'll follow up tonight.

william

mattschinkel wrote:
> Sorry william, I did not mean anything bad by my comment. William did
> make a very good original init routine for 16F pic's for mode 0,0
>
> "buggy" was the wrong term to use, it simply needs upgrading.
>
> As you know, I have not been around here as long as everyone else, so
> please excuse my mistakes.
>
> Matt.
>
> On Sep 1, 9:14 am, Joep Suijs <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2009/9/1 mattschinkel <[email protected]>:
> >
> >
> >
> > > William, I would consider your original init routine to be "buggy"
> > > since it will not work with 18f chips.
> >
> > First of all, I don't agree. A bug means that the program works
> > differently as designed and obviously, William wrote this library to
> > work with (some?) 16f chips. It is good to 'extend the functionality'
> > for this lib to work with more (and ultimately all) pics. But that's
> > not bugfixing.
> >
> > Second, the remark does not appear to be too kind to William and I
> > don't see why.
> > Also in my experience, there are always bugs in software and those
> > bugs surface in unforseen (hence untested) situations. So what he
> > states can be concidered as a fact, and hence not blamed to anybody.
> > This fact has to be taken into concideration when you want to refactor
> > a library and, for example, want to provide a universal interface. I
> > don't know if I share his verdict - this depends on the knowledge on
> > SPI periperals and SPI standards. With in depth knowledge you could go
> > for the top-down approach. Without it, concider William's suggestion.
> >
> > Joep
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