Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude on Windows

[E. Weddington]

On 12 Feb 2003 at 16:29, Brian Dean wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:55:23PM -0700, E. Weddington wrote:
> 
> > Any thoughts about moving these out to their own file / API to drop
> > in replacements per platform?
> 
> Yes - before I added support for the stk500 and came up with the 'pgm'
> interface, the ppi.c file was basically just the ppi manipulating
> functions you mentioned above.  At that time, I probably should have
> created a new file, say, parallel.[ch] instead of dumping all the
> parallel port programmer operations into ppi.c.
> 
> What if we leave ppi.[ch] to be ppi_get/set, etc and create a new file
> for the parallel port programmer stuff, maybel parallel.[ch] or
> something.  We'd change the programmer type in the config file to
> match the new name, of course.  ppi.* would simply retain the low
> level parallel port manipulation functions, where parallel.[ch] would
> contain the higher level parallel programmer routines.
> 
> Would that make it easier or not to support varying platforms where
> the ppi_set/get etc routines need to be implimented differently?
> 
> -Brian

Fine by me if there's no objections. Thanks.

Eric