[ericw@evcohs.com: Re: [avrdude-dev] Re: [AVR-Chat] AVRDUDE 5.0 BETA Release]
2005-05-18 by Brian Dean
Eric Weddington, maintainer of the WinAVR distribution and the main avrdude Windows developer is not subscribed to AVR-Chat and asked that I forward his reply here. -Brian ----- Forwarded message from "E. Weddington" <ericw@evcohs.com> ----- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 17:09:56 -0600
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From: "E. Weddington" <ericw@evcohs.com> To: Brian Dean <bsd@bdmicro.com> Subject: Re: [avrdude-dev] Re: [AVR-Chat] AVRDUDE 5.0 BETA Release Cc: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, avrdude-dev@nongnu.org Brian Dean wrote: >On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 04:44:05PM -0500, Mike Perks wrote: > > > >>Windows is not my platform of choice but it certainly is the most >>popular "choice". I don't quite understand why it takes so long to >>produce a Windows version. >> >> > >Like any open source project, we're doing this in our spare time, as a >service to the community. Since it's a volunteer effort, the work >gets done as folks have time to do it. But geez, the release was only >cut on Saturday and on short notice at that - please be patient. The >binaries will be available soon. > Also, the main Windows developer tries not to do too much on weekends anyway. ;-) Plus he's not subscribed to the AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com list. You always have the option to build the binary yourself; some build instructions are in the avrdude user manual. Note that it requires you to be somewhat familiar with Cygwin / POSIX environment. Eric _______________________________________________ avrdude-dev mailing list avrdude-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev ----- End forwarded message -----