Re: [Mspgcc-users] python jtag bsl - question

[Chris L. <cli...@gm...>]

msp430 schrieb:
> hello my dear mspgcc users,
> 
> why a lot of the mspgcc tools are written 2 times?
> there is a "normal" jtag, i gueass it was written in C!? right?

our JTAG back end is MSP430mspgcc.dll. there are 2 python bindings for 
it. one is a c extension for python the other pure python with ctypes. 
but thats less interesting for you.

the command line front end is msp430-jtag which is a python program 
(named msp430-jtag.py in the CVS repository). pyjtag is the old 
implementation which was renamed.

> and there is e python-jtag and a python-bsl!?

is there? there is a "python" folder that has libraries for JTAG and BSL 
within the "mspgcc" folder and there are command line front ends called 
msp430-jtag.py and msp430-bsl.py

> why is it the way it is? why are there more than one version?

there is currently only one implementation within the mspgcc project.

> is it funny to write a program twice in different languages?

sure, especially in python ;-) and as i do all other programms in python 
too, such a s custom programmer applications, it is much easier to do it 
with my python implmentation of the JTAG or BSL code.

> what is better? - the msp430-jtag or the python-jtag?

use the tools from the "python" folder. the other stuff is just old

chris