On 11/1/07, M Wedin <wedinm@gmail.com> wrote:
> This thead is about to derail, but just a brief comment.
>
> PiKdev is the work of Alain Gibaud. That source is the base of Piklab (the
> story could become long, read about it elsewhere, and keep it off of this
> list).

That is the past. Pikdev development is pretty much stopped as
far as I know from the website. Piklab is now much more than
Pikdev.

> Running Debian stable, my packages lack a few decimals in version, and
> subsequently, I can't run Piklab. Others will have to define their reasons.
> I don't mind a lot since PiKdev does all I need, and then some.

You do not want to run Debian Stable for PIC development under Linux.
You might run into problems with gpsim and piklab, both are good tools.
Piklab is quite good and the author is spending a lot of time on the
support of programmers (notably ICD2), toolchains under Linux.
If you do not want IDE, then it is perhaps ok to use Debian Stable
as gputils/sdcc and other command line tools will will run well.

PICkit 2 is now very well supported under Linux with the release of the
port of pk2cmd from Jeff Post. Jeff Post (and I will help him) will work
with Microchip to try to get a cross-platform code base for future version
of pk2cmd.
http://home.pacbell.net/theposts/picmicro/

Xiaofan
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