Thanks Janje,
I thought I was on the list from day one, apparently the "send email to
subscribe" didn't work for me as I did that twice.
Anyway, yes, that seems to perfectly match my idea, at least from a
functional perspective. Probably I was imagining a different UI, but my
perspective is driven by the Java side of Eclipse (which I use on a daily
basis).
I can test the V3 today on Win7 and/or Win 10 64 bit, do you have any
preference?
Roberto
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Jan Baeyens <jan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Roberto
Welcome to the developers list.
What you are describing is very close to what is in a pull request waiting
for V3 to be released:
https://github.com/jantje/arduino-eclipse-plugin/pull/376
However I advice to also read my answer as I see little added value as we
already have multiple configuration (which I would call multiple board
types) which supports different com ports and different board types.
The fact that the switching of the com port (which I would call multiple
boards of the same type) forces a rebuild is a long lasting issue which I
have in mind to fix for patreon users only.
https://github.com/jantje/arduino-eclipse-plugin/issues/80.
Best regards
Jantje
PS: Note that the patreon user only stuff is something I want to discuss
here as soon as V3 is out the door.
On 29-02-16 13:06, Roberto Lo Giacco wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm really pleased by your achievements on Toddler and I'm here to
contribute an idea which might be helpful, at least on my projects: support
for multi boards on one project.
Practically speaking we are currently assigning the board and the com port
to the project, while I'm suggesting to decouple that into another view so
to have multiple boards and coms associated to a project. this way it will
be very easy to upload the same project to multiple targets and I'm
obviously suggesting to keep the compiled code for the different boards
separately, so to prevent the full recompilation each and every time.
We can consider those as "deploy targets", each one having an associated
board type: if I have 5 pro minis on 5 com ports I will only need one
compiled code, but I can have 5 com ports configurations.
If I understand correctly the process, selecting a board now selects the
toolchain and prepares the compile and upload commands, with an additional
parameter to be the com port.
If you have any experience with Java and web projects, we have another
view to decide which project goes onto which server and this is the kind of
decoupling I'm suggesting.
So, this view can be the "deploy targets" view, where the configured
boards are listed (arduino uni, teensy, etc...) and under those there are
the associated com ports (some may be repeated, obviously).
Obviously this is not high priority as I'm not sure many need this
feature, but can be a nice addition which might help us distinguish from
other projects.
Open for comments and thoughts,
Roberto
