[avrdude-dev] Re: per-user config file - .avrduderc

[Brian Dean]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 02:34:12PM -0700, eric wrote:

> At this point I'm not completely sure on the final form for Windows. I'll
> probably wait until the dust settles on this. :-) The platforms are
> different.

[ discussion of Windows method ... ]

Ok.  Well, I don't claim to know the right thing to do on Windows, so
I'll leave that to your judgement.  It sounds like Joerg may be able
to provide some good suggestions for you, though, and probably Ted,
too.

> Still, I'm not totally convinced that overriding the system file is
> completely necessary. I can see specifying with -C a different config file
> that is used instead of the system config. I don't see that many users
> will be customizing or needing to customize the system file except in the
> very beginning until all the AVR processors are specified in the config
> file. There's just not that many people making custom programmers that
> need to override the system.

I think the main reason someone would want to do that is to change the
defaults.  I.e., list their programmer as the 'default_programmer'.
Most folks may only have this one single line in their customized
file.  Doing this will keep them from having to specify their
programmer on the command line each time they run avrdude, so if
there's a way you can provide that, I think it could be useful.

> BTW, once avrdude is distributed with WinAVR on Windows, it's user base
> will increase dramatically. In just over 5 weeks, WinAVR 20030115 has
> gotten over 7,000 downloads. :-)

Yikes - I better get my e-mail address out of the binary, perhaps
replace it with code to plant a subliminal suggestion that they
purchase one of my boards from www.bdmicro.com :-)

Cheers,
-Brian
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