This is a breaking change to Adalink which improves that ability to extend cores by allowing core-specific command line parameters. The change is to make the core a subparser for Python's argparser library and allow each core to add optional command line arguments to their parsing. The functionality that breaks/changes vs. the old behavior is that now the core must be specified as the first positional parameter instead of using the --core parameter.
For example in the past the nRF51822 core could be selected with syntax like:
adalink --core nrf51822 --wipe --program foo.hex
Now this syntax changes to put the core at the beginning without a --core param:
adalink nrf51822 --wipe --program foo.hex
The benefit of this is that each core is a subparser which can define its own custom parameters (in addition to the default ones it will inherit, like --wipe, --program, --info, etc.). You can actually see core-specific help by running --help with a core, like:
adalink nrf51822 --help
You can also see a list of all cores by just running help without any core selected:
adalink --help
To see how to add core-specific parameters see the cores/test.py file for a simple dummy/test core implementation. New class-level methods (kinda like a static class method in C++) can be implemented on a core to add extra arguments to the command line parsing. Each cores initializer will receive as a parameter the parsed command line info which it can read to pull out its custom parameters.
I left all the existing cores alone and didn't change any of their functionality or parameters.
This is a breaking change to Adalink which improves that ability to extend cores by allowing core-specific command line parameters. The change is to make the core a subparser for Python's argparser library and allow each core to add optional command line arguments to their parsing. The functionality that breaks/changes vs. the old behavior is that now the core must be specified as the first positional parameter instead of using the --core parameter.
For example in the past the nRF51822 core could be selected with syntax like:
Now this syntax changes to put the core at the beginning without a --core param:
The benefit of this is that each core is a subparser which can define its own custom parameters (in addition to the default ones it will inherit, like --wipe, --program, --info, etc.). You can actually see core-specific help by running --help with a core, like:
You can also see a list of all cores by just running help without any core selected:
To see how to add core-specific parameters see the
cores/test.pyfile for a simple dummy/test core implementation. New class-level methods (kinda like a static class method in C++) can be implemented on a core to add extra arguments to the command line parsing. Each cores initializer will receive as a parameter the parsed command line info which it can read to pull out its custom parameters.I left all the existing cores alone and didn't change any of their functionality or parameters.