Will the Digispark Arduino merge into main tree?

[fmotta]

I am hoping to see the Digispark changes to the Arduino IDE in the main branch soon so I can have one fewer version of application on my systems. 

Is this merge/contribution planned soon?

Thanks

[digistump]

An official merge is unlikely to be accepted by the Arduino staff - that said 1.5 is build to allow things like Digispark's special bootloader and other code to coexist with the regular Arduino stuff - so we'll be moving to 1.5 to support our new project the DigiX with the same application as the Digispark and with that will come all the regular Arduino stuff as you'd expect it.


All that said you can program a regular Arduino with our current software - we didn't disable/break the original stuff, just moved some of the examples around that's it.

[fmotta]

Hmmm, That is unfortunate.  I cannot really use the DigiSpark IDE for the new ARM based boards and a number of libraries that I download for other boards are "clashing" with these old ones so I now have to swap out my $USER/Documents/Arduino when I choose a different version.

How about contributing your changes to the 1.5 or later?

[digistump]

1.5 is built in a way that you'll simply be able to drop in our file and add Digispark compatibility - so again we won't be contributing unless something changes and the arduino team start accepting alternative boards into the source - but you'll be able to use it for Digisparks as well without the conflicts.

[sodabrew]

@DigiStump - as you mention that the Arduino 1.5 IDE can take a drop in for new board support, could you prepare a drop-in for the DigiSpark?

[digistump]

We are working hard on this - there are some issues with 1.5 that prevent non-COM port programmers from working - we ahve fixed them in our own build that still works with every thing else that works with 1.5 - we will be packing it with DigiX, Digispark, and Digispark Pro support - expect some preliminary releases in the next few weeks.

[TimO]

I think I've got three or four versions of the Arduino environment on my machines now, since I have Digisparks, DigiXs, Teensys (2 and 3), and Trinkets, all of which seem to need slightly different environments!

Just to make things worse, I'm modifying the LUFA HID bootloader to behave more like the Digispark one, for a custom AVR based board, where it allows programming for a short period after powering the device on without needing to hit the reset button, so I'm possibly going to have to create another version.