Anybody know how to change the comm port it looks for GPS data on?
It runs on my PNA but seems it can't find the GPS data.
Mike
At 11:47 AM 4/08/2010, you wrote:
On 04/08/2010, at 10:20 AM, Derek Ruddock wrote:
It's amusing following the XCSoar development.
Almost every week there is a new 'stable' version. The last one
included 700 changes, and was followed almost immediately by
another 'b' version and then by a 'c' version to fix yet another bug.
There has not been a "stable" version of XCSoar released for a long
time now (over a year). Not sure where you are getting that concept from.
We are releasing nightly alpha builds, and occasionally milestones.
We are working hard on releasing the first version of this new
branch soon. It will be called 6.0
One of the differences between a closed source application (like See
you) is you don't see these nightly builds and beta releases. You
only see the final, and a limited run beta occasionally. Where as an
open source application releases to the public all builds, no matter
what progress.
So if you want "stable" you need to use 5.2.4 - released last on
5/August/2009.
Software development works like this - you branch to a new release,
you develop on that, continuing to make changes. You have milestones
where we release something that compiles and passes some basic
testing - these are the regular releases, but not the nightly ones,
then the nightly builds may not pass tests even at all. Finally
after your branch gets complete (eg you finish features you want,
and bugs etc) you then make an alpha version - this is likely to
still have issues. Finally when you "think" you are ready to
release, you release a beta - this is a version that you think you
can go stable with, but it is beta, because we are often wrong. Once
it passes that beta testing, you release a stable version.
This is how most applications are developed, and you are confusing
seeing what would be an internal process for a closed source project
with how open source works. You can also see this is other open
source projects, if you live on the edge :-) e.g. you can download
nightly builds of Firefox.
Scott
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