On 2006-08-31, Chris Liechti <[email protected]> wrote:

>>>simple dialogs to download. the latest version also has the
>>>ability to fetch the settings from an ini file. even a zip that
>>>bundles the settings and binary together is supported.
>> 
>> Yup, I saw that.  I don't have mspgcc installed on any of the
>> Windows machines, and I was under the impression that all of
>> those Python programs required the main mspgcc install.
>
> the NSIS one needs mspgcc on the developers machine, but the
> resulting exe is self contained.

The developers machine doesn't (usually) run Windows. I
occasionally boot up WinMe under Win4Lin to run py2exe, but I
try to keep my Windows usage to a minimum.  :)

> msp430-download + giveio can be installed separately. thats
> simple, but i don't have made an installer for this
> combination.

No worries.  If I do decided I need that, I can install mspgcc
under Win4Lin and bundle things up myself.

>> This isn't for end-users, it's for engineering and production
>> use.  Eventually, I think they're be a firmware-mediated
>> update scheme that uses a different interface.
>
> at my workplace, we're using the NSIS variant extensively for
> this purpose.

BSL isn't really an option for end-user updates, since we're
using a standardized physical layer and protocol that aren't
BSL.

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