Hello,<br><br>I like to use the program ft232rprog (<a href="http://rtr.ca/ft232r/" target="_blank">http://rtr.ca/ft232r/</a>) to set the parameters in the FTDI line of USB chips (<a href="http://www.ftdichip.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ftdichip.com/</a>).
It would be convenient if a nice package were included in major distros
like ubuntu. This program is extremely good but very poorly advertised.
<br>
<br>I am new to packaging but I managed to make a working .deb file. How might they be added to
Debian, Ubuntu and friends? I attached the .deb file and related files to a previous message but they took too much space and my email was rejected from the list.<br> <br>I asked the program's author (Mark Lord) about what he thought about packaging. The following is a copy of our email exchange.<br>
<br><div>On 12-07-03 08:46 AM, Karl Edler wrote:<br>
> Hello <span>Mark</span>,<br>
><br>
> I really liked your ft232r_prog program which I found on your website.<br>
> It saved me from some windows pain in using the FTProg program from<br>
> FTDI.<br>
><br>
> Being over-zealous, I thought it would be nice to produce an ubuntu<br>
> package for this program and possibly have it included in the list of<br>
> things that are available under "apt-get install". My goal is selfish,<br>
> I want to make installation of this code anywhere very very simple. I<br>
> have never done this before but making a .deb package was actually<br>
> quite easy.<br>
><br>
> Are you okay with this?<br>
<br>
</div>Yep, go for it, thanks!<br>
<div><br>
> I noticed that you did not specify a license for your code. What would<br>
> you like the license to be?<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>Totally free software, use as you please,<br>
no obligations whatsoever.<br>
<br>
Cheers