Re: [Uisp-dev] The many cables

[E. Weddington]

Margarita Manterola wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:20:32 -0700 (PDT), Theodore A. Roth
> <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > > Could we have the description of each cable stored in a file, and read
> > > the values into variables from that file, according to the type of
> > > cable selected?
> > >      
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> > Avrdude already does something like that via a monster config file.
> > Are you talking about parsing a config file?
> > I'm not a a big fan of adding yet another config file to the user's
> > system.
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> Well not necessary a monster config file.  Maybe many different files,
> one for each cable.  The idea was that one could add a new cable
> without having to understand all the uisp code.
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>  

The size of the file, ideally, doesn't really matter. Moving uisp to 
parsing any config file is still a significant architecture change (I 
would think). And again, avrdude already does this.

Eric