Re: [avr-gcc-list] AVR Studio 4.19 does not work with AVR Toolchain 3.4.0 (informative)

[David Brown]

On 09/08/2012 15:32, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 09.08.12 12:36, Weddington, Eric wrote:
> > Hi Erik,
> >
> > What OS and email client do you use?
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> It's Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS, and Mutt 1.5.20.
>
> And since Georg-Johann appears to use Thunderbird, it's not unreasonable
> to suspect that something in Graham's post is triggering the spurious
> thread linking, but I've even cleaned my glasses before going over his
> headers again, and it still looks like he's done all he reasonably could
> to start a new thread. (Viewed both via mutt's header display option,
> and by going in with vim.)
>
> Since I've hit # in mutt, the threads are now separated here, but they
> were linked on receipt, AFAIR. The why of it has me stumped, though.
>
> I think we have to be able to show some header deficiency before we can
> fault the posting technique. (After that, a solution ought not be too
> difficult.)
>
> Erik

There are a number of headers that can be used, such as "References" and 
various "Thread" headers.  Mutt is a relic from the middle ages (I'm a 
great command-line fan, and do a fair amount of my work in shells, but 
gui's really are better for some types of program), so it is not a 
surprise that Thunderbird is better at tracking message threads.

The posting technique /is/ at fault.  It doesn't really matter if /you/ 
don't see the threading - as long as at least one other person sees it, 
the post is threaded.  (Of course, it matters for curiosity - I can 
fully understand if you want to know /how/ the threading works.)

In short, the matter is solved - when you start a new topic, make a new 
post to address@hidden rather than replying to an existing 
post.  It will be a lot easier than trying to remove all the headers 
from a reply!


For what it's worth, I too dislike the newer AVR Studio - partly because 
I do most of my development work with Linux, and partly because even on 
Windows it is a bloated mess.  I can't figure out why they decided to 
use MS VS as a base - the industry has practically standardised on 
Eclipse, and the single biggest request from users for AVR Studio 5 was 
that it be cross-platform.  But I guess Atmel had their reasons, and 
they are certainly good at making the compiler toolchain easily 
available from Linux, so I don't want to complain /too/ much.

mvh.,

David