Add retrying of sector writes if they fail

[mithro]

As @ewenmcneill suggested.

[ewenmcneill]

These two commits from an old PR give the general code structure, but probably need reimplementing to fit with the much rearranged code in master now:

• 9b71b91
• 6798b2a

Ewen

[ewenmcneill]

FTR, another user having problems, supposedly with the "latest" tinyprog (installed from git). I've asked whether they installed it before or after the changes merged this past weekend (2019-07-12). But either way, retrying the failed sectors might have helped them.

https://discourse.tinyfpga.com/t/issues-with-tinyprog-u-on-bx/628/18

(and this is another reason for wanting to actually do a release to PyPI...)

Ewen

[ewenmcneill]

FTR, another user having problems, supposedly with the "latest" tinyprog (installed from git). I've asked whether they installed it before or after the changes merged this past weekend (2019-07-12).

Apparently they installed just before the fix was merged, and it's been working better for them after updating to the current installed version -- https://discourse.tinyfpga.com/t/issues-with-tinyprog-u-on-bx/628/20.

They also suggest that the PyPI version be updated... which I also agree would be a good idea.

Ewen