Re: [Xc3sprog-users] About the D2XX library and other things

[Uwe B. <bo...@el...>]

>>>>> "Joris" == Joris van Rantwijk <jo...@sr...> writes:

    Joris> Hi Uwe, Thanks again for your excellent work on XC3SPROG.  I just
    Joris> upgraded to SVN r632, and I'd like to make a few comments.

Sorry for the delay, Vacations ;-)
    Joris> There seems to be no way to make xc3sprog read a custom
    Joris> cablelist.txt file at run time. I think this is unintentional, so
    Joris> I filed a bug report in the SF tracker.

Hopefully fixed now

    Joris> Xc3sprog now requires the FTDI D2XX library in order to
    Joris> compile. It used to be a compile-time option. I think it is very
    Joris> unpractical for a free software project to have a hard dependency
    Joris> on a closed-source library. Especially since libD2XX does not
    Joris> seem to offer any advantage over libftdi.

    Joris> Would you consider making the use of D2XX optional again? For my
    Joris> own purpose, I have put the "#ifdef USE_FTD2XX" conditionals back
    Joris> in place so that I can compile without D2XX. I can send you the
    Joris> diff if you like.

Please send the diff. 

    Joris> If you are only concerned about the ifdef-mess in the source
    Joris> code, I am willing to do some cleanup work. I believe the choice
    Joris> between D2XX/libftdi can be isolated in a very small part of
    Joris> ioftdi.cpp.
However the right solution would be configurable with CMAKE...

    Joris> Lastly, my feeling is that the built-in help message of xc3sprog
    Joris> has become a little less user friendly over the last year. In
    Joris> particular, the "-p" option is not mentioned. I consider myself
    Joris> an experienced user of xc3sprog, yet I had to look in the source
    Joris> code to figure out how to run it.

I somehow managed to delete the line or forgot it. Hopefully fixed now,.
If you have any ideas about a better help message or other ommission, please
let me know. Also a man page is needed.

Bye
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