[En-Nut-Discussion] NutOS configurator

[Ole Reinhardt]

> Compared to the Windows installation the only difference is, that the 
> root is called nutos instead of ethernut-x.y.z/. The directory structure 
> is the same and this would solve some problems with the Configurator 
> running on Linux.

Ok, I never had a NutOS windows installation :-) Ok, so the only
difference is the main directory name. I think it would be the best if
the main directory name does not matter at all. So everybody can name it
as he want.

Btw: you said you save the global settings in the windows registry. You
could do the same on linux with gconf. Or instead use the .NutConf file
as well. We only should avoid that the correlation of config set and
conf file name is lost if the installation path is changed. 

What's about using the global config only for the "Gui" settings and
save the pathes to the tools in the config file itself? So you don't
have to match anything but can read back the whole config from one file?

> I'm almost sure, that we will never get a clear vote for one or the 
> other tool. The wxWidgets/Lua based solution is quite fancy and, thanks 
> to Lua, has a big potential (see the dynamic display of the Nut/OS 
> version). On the other hand, it'd be an advantage to get a second 
> solution just for the price of some porting efforts. You can probably 
> count on me, specifically when it comes to the translation of existing 
> config files.

Ok! Thanks for your cooperation. I'll try to build the basic scrips and
we'll have a look how much effort is needed to have these two
configurations available.

Right now I only see one majer thing we need to change. KConfig names
it's config values (#defines) always with CONFIG_ as prefix. So we would
need to change all defines that are configurable with NutConf to use
this naming scheme as well.

What do you think about? Perhaps we should have a phone call for such
details :-)

Bye,

Ole

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