Re: [Usbpicprog-technical] loading PIC data from Piklab XML files

[Frans S. <fra...@gm...>]

Hi Francesco,

>
>   
> I think it would be better; unfortunately sometimes there are infos in the 
> Piklab XML files which are wrong (at least they look wrong to me but I'm not 
> 100% sure) and if the user may just edit an XML file to fix upp_wx for his PIC 
> model, it would be indeed more happy than being forced to wait for a new 
> release/snapshot.
>   
you are right about that, most people don't edit it in the source, but 
maybe they do in their copy of the xml files.
> Also, distributing the XML files would encourage the user to complete them with 
> the missing info for their favourite PIC models (e.g. many names of pins in the 
> <package> tags are missing...).
>
> Btw before releasing an upp_wx version which uses Piklab XML files it would be 
> nice to inform Piklab developers of this (and we may periodically post them the 
> diffs between our XML files and theirs, so that both projects can converge to a 
> correct database of PICs info).
>   
Of course, I'll contact Nicolas Hadacek about it.
>> I know that loading the xml files at runtime has some advantages, eg 
>> that you can edit them without having to recompile the program, but I am 
>> sure that it will bring some problems especially when we are talking 
>> about cross platform development...
>>     
> sorry, which problems could it bring?
> I'm using XML files in various other (cross-platform, wx-based) projects and I 
> never had troubles...
>   
Well, I was just thinking about the location, we really have to think 
where the files are being placed. Linux puts them in 
/usr/share/usbpicprog/... or usr/local/share/usbpicprog/...
Windows would put them somewhere in program files and mac will put them 
in the .app bundle. It's not impossible but it takes some different 
scripts and a lot of testing.

Cheers,

Frans