Guys, I strongly suggest that once we (Rob, in fact) settled for a set of configuration bit "names", we have to stay with that indefinitely. It is at least annoying when everything is broken by Microchip new changes. They come with absolutely nothing for the old chips _and_ JALv2 does not depend on mplab assembler or gputils assembler to generate the hex file, as SDCC, PMP, Great Cow Basic, Proton Basic and Swordfish Basic does. We are blessed with an independece others don't have.
Once we removed this "bug", you'll see that here is little work to do for maintenance, as there are no new chips from Microchip every day. All important changes should be triggered by a new version of the compiler and also by the new microcontroller additions, without affecting what it worked - much less work to do. Because we are breaking everything with the Microchip changes, including some documentation or even web tutorials and written books. You can't have the same guys available for ever - see Albert who introduced the USB libraries. If we keep this up, we can go to a point where everything is broken. I think that this showed us that this system is not infallible. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Larry Bradley <[email protected]>wrote: > Rob: > > I wasn't trying to make MORE work for the group; I was just trying to > point out that there are probably MANY users out there who could contribute > code to the library, but who are not necessarily comfortable trying to > produce library-quality code. My suggestion was that there be a method for > such people to make their code available for others to try out and see if > it is useful. If it was a useful library module, THEN it could be made > library quality, either by the original contributor, or by "others". When I > used the "I" in my post, I was making a general statement about the JAL > user population. I personally will have no problem following the library > guidelines and using any tools provided. But others may. > > Perhaps I mis-understood what you were asking for. I THOUGHT it was for > more contributions. But it sounds like you also want people to help > maintain the existing library. > > Anyhow, I'm willing to get involved to some extent. I will have to spend a > bit of time getting familiar with what is going on, go back through the > Jallib archives to see what you folks are up to, and see how I can help out. > > > -- > Larry Bradley > Orleans (Ottawa) Canada > > On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 12:31 +0100, Rob Hamerling wrote: > > > However, for we users, perhaps there should be a way for people to > > contribute code, without initially having to meet the Jallib standards. > > For example, I've made some changes to the "format_xxx" routines. It > > would be nice if I could submit my version to a test library for others > > to check out. If all is well, then I (or if "I" am not really qualified > > to do the Jallib standard coding, then one of the others in the project) > > could clean it up and put it in the production library. > > You are supposed to know that we have a validation tool which is very > helpful in building code up to Jallib standards, and it is not difficult > to use. The main purpose of this tool is to avoid that others have to do > the 'dirty' work of cleaning up other people's code (or at least > minimize the amount of time for assistance for this). I personally > detest this, and I'm probably not the only one. Now you suggest that WE > should do more of that, while I'm asking for help with this! > > ------------------------------ > > PLEASE ...... > > Regards. Rob. > > > -- > R. Hamerling, Netherlands --- http://www.robh.nl > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jallib" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Vasi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
