Quote Originally Posted by prstein View Post
Thanks for the great info and the links! I think I'd prefer to keep the idea of using those files as plan B, as it takes away the simplicity by requiring files to be present that are not required by PBP.
But if they are freely available, they could be distrubted with the program. Are the installed with mplab? if so it seems no different then requiring MPASM

An alternate Plan B would be to develop my/our own set of files with just the data the application needed. A lot of work on the front side but there could be benefits as well.
This goes back to the original database idea of Dave. Use a form to input information for each device as needed. If the db is community supported, it will be far easier to build the records.