RE: [avrdude-dev] AVRdude for win32 installer

[Gianmario.Scotti]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext E. Weddington [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 30 January, 2004 19:33
> To: address@hidden; Scotti Gianmario (Nokia-NET/Helsinki)
> Subject: Re: [avrdude-dev] AVRdude for win32 installer
> 
> > I would humbly suggest a possible solution: do NOT use a 
> Windows installer to
> > install AVRdude, just a plain zip archive, perhaps 
> self-extracting if you want
> > to be fancy.
> 
> For every person who wants a self-extracting zip archive, 
> there's somebody who 
> wants an installer and vice versa.
I understand the need for an OS-native package. In fact, I have
been working hard towards packaging our software into native Solaris
or HP-UX packages, because it makes technical sense most of the time.
I managed to persuade my colleagues of the usefulness of creating
native packages, instead of just a .tar or similar archive (now that
I think about it, I forgot to put that in my resume).

Also, notice the word "humbly" ;o)


>  
> > P.S. could you perhaps repackage the Win32 version at least 
> once, as I
> > have now broken my own WINavr installation? Pretty please?
> 
> 
> Ok,
No need, I did that already myself, thanks anyway.
> about before. Currently, when avrdude is built, it requires 
> the cygwin1.dll, 
> and the avrdude installer promptly overwrites this file. 
Check this out:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

These are (some) GNU tools natively compiled to the win32 API.
This is the first thing I install on any desktop/laptop I get
to use. These tools are generally much faster than the ones
compiled against cygwin.


cheers and thanks


mario