My usability enhancement issue for today is to reduce the effort and likelihood of mistakes by reducing the number of downloads to update a board.
As I understand, A user must -
- Go to https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/releases and down a firmware build which requires two decisions, 1) type of board and 2) type of firmware.
- Reflash the board. UF2 is really awesome.
- Go to https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_Bundle/releases , select the correctly file, download the file, and prune the /lib of unnecessary files due to board constants.
- Copy the /lib to the root of the board fs.
This could be simplified to a single .zip download with includes the correct firmware and library combination for a given board. I need to do a bit more researching... but I believe this can be specified in the Makefile for each port.
This issues became prominent when I got a bug after updating and I experienced a repeating error when opening the serial port immediately after updating. The issue prevented me from easily using the keyboard to drop into the REPL to debug
As a new user, I spent several hours tracking down what I might have done incorrectly while selecting the necessary files and installing them for my board. Props to the file naming convention on https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/releases . The file name exactly matched the silkscreen on the back of my board so I least I could assume I download the correct firmware.
David
(I believe the bug I experienced had to do with an API change between /lib and what the main.py shipped with the board expected. I'll go more into that in another bug report.)
My usability enhancement issue for today is to reduce the effort and likelihood of mistakes by reducing the number of downloads to update a board.
As I understand, A user must -
This could be simplified to a single .zip download with includes the correct firmware and library combination for a given board. I need to do a bit more researching... but I believe this can be specified in the Makefile for each port.
This issues became prominent when I got a bug after updating and I experienced a repeating error when opening the serial port immediately after updating. The issue prevented me from easily using the keyboard to drop into the REPL to debug
As a new user, I spent several hours tracking down what I might have done incorrectly while selecting the necessary files and installing them for my board. Props to the file naming convention on https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/releases . The file name exactly matched the silkscreen on the back of my board so I least I could assume I download the correct firmware.
David
(I believe the bug I experienced had to do with an API change between /lib and what the main.py shipped with the board expected. I'll go more into that in another bug report.)