Re: [avr-chat] GUI wrapper for avrdude

[Joerg Wunsch]

Eric Weddington <address@hidden> wrote:

> The real question on the table is, how to implement it given the
> acceptance criteria of cross-platform GUI? That's a real technical
> challenge right now.  Here's one idea: Java.

There's already one existing Java project for an avrdude GUI, which
appears to have some success (search avrfreaks.net for it).  What I
simply don't really like it, and where I've got my doubts it could be
solved at all is that it reinvents the wheel, doesn't use the avrdude
backend library, and thus is prone to always lag behind avrdude,
trying catch-up games each time avrdude changes something.  To me, a
tool based on the very same library as the CLI frontend is more
guaranteed to synchronize support between both frontends.

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