Re: gputils development

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:24 AM, David Barnett <daviebdawg@...> wrote:
> It's been my experience that gputils has a steep learning curve for
> development, probably more so than the average open source project.

Or maybe the whole open source PIC development is not
so fun. gputils is good. gpsim is ok. sdcc for PIC has a long
way to go. Piklab is not moving. pk2cmd works fine. Still no
good debugger support. gnupic mailing list is quiet.

On the other hand, Microchip is moving very fast with
PIC24/dsPIC/PIC32, USB, TCP/IP, Zigbee, etc. Most
of the tools are provided under Windows. So maybe
many people (including me) are moving to PIC24 and
PIC32 since both offer good gcc based compilers which
work under Linux and Mac OS X.

Example for PIC32:
http://www.paintyourdragon.com/uc/osxpic32/index.html
http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=364626

Now there is a new chance for lower end PIC16F with
the announcement of Enhanced PIC16F.
http://www.microchip.com/enhanced
http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=378667

This should be a good update to people using
PIC16F. Hopefully gputils/sdcc/gpsim can catch the
opportunity.

Just some random thoughts.

Xiaofan

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