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Originally Posted by Shinigami2057
I think it would be a great idea if we started a development team to write a fully open-source toolchain for the FIRST competition - with your IDE, my program loader (which will be very easy to integrate into your idea, the code is designed to be used as a shared library), and some other useful collaboration tools (I agree that svn is a little overboard for most team's programming groups, too much work).
This may sound a little insane, but I've been more and more interested in writing a free software compiler for the FRC. It would take a hell of a lot of research and work, and probably wouldn't be usable for this year's competition, but it would be a great learning experience for anyone willing to help out and would greatly benefit the competition in general, IMHO.
In my opinion, we should try to centralize all these small programming projects for FIRST to encourage collaboration and making better and more robust tools for the competition.  |
Yes, I agree with you that a open-source workflow would be ideal here. I personally am not pleased with the open-source-hostile actions FIRST has been taking.
As for your compiler idea, that sounds insanely hard, but if you want to, go for it. This
project might be useful. Also, you might want to go look what the gcc people are doing. Its possible they are planning on a compiler for Microchip stuff, or they might have some discussions about it (I haven't looked yet).