Re: [anjuta-devel] GSoC: Anjuta as an AVR development environment

[Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de>]

Hi!

> I would probably give a bit higher priority than Johannes to make this 
> working in Anjuta. We have such requests from time to time and get a 
> recent one (the bug 645081) to use a ARM microcontroller.

If you are interested in mentoring Lucas that would be great. ARMs are a
bit a different topic though...

> It's difficult to test without any real hardware, it would be really 
> useful if a free CPU simulator that can be used with gdb is available. 
> So only the JTAG part will really need some hardware.

Real hardware for Atmel is rather cheap. I even have some lying around
(pretty simple stuff, AtMega8 with SD-Card and serial comminucation, no
JTAG). Could send that to someone interested but we that would need some
SMD soldering to put together.

Still, a CPU simulator would be nice, I think one exists.

> The project manager uses autotools and I'm not sure it's really usable 
> for an AVR project. We have a makefile project backend but it's quite 
> primitive.

It should work with autotools I think. Might be overkill but as long as
it is working transparently to the user, I wouldn't case.

> I don't think it's too short for 3 months, especially as you don't seem 
> to have much experience in C. It's not that difficult but it takes time. 
> Perhaps it's possible to write such plugin in Python but I don't know if 
> the bindings are good enough.

Python bindings have to be tested. There is introspection but it might
be incomplete. I think there are some issues with implementing
interfaces.

Regards,
Johannes