Hi All. Okay, here goes. Last night during the net with Steve and Kamal as the band was folding I tried to tell them about a contest logger I had done some hacking on late last year and early this year. So far it only exists in a local Git repository on my hard drive and has not seen the light of day. After thinking about it overnight I have decided to invite the Ubuntu Hams list to the discussion.
This program is originally based on YFKtest by Fabian, DJ1YFK: http://fkurz.net/ham/yfktest.html It is written in Perl and uses the Curses module for its UI. At the moment, the only other module used is IO::Socket::INET (for rigctld and cwdaemon) so it is quite generic and may run on older Perl versions even though I have been working with it in Perl 5.10.x on Debian Sid. I started with the SVN checkout of YFKtest as of 30 October 2009 and imported it into my Git repository so all of the prior change record is intact that I could get from SVN. My changes are minor, mostly reworking the Curses UI more to my liking although the experimental branch holds work for converting to the new Extended Response Protocol of rigctld in Hamlib 1.2.11. Also, since many of the pending changes have reworked much of Fabian's and his contributors' code, I chose to rename it CTest which pays homage to its intended familiar look of CT and its ancestor, YFKtest. Why am I stating all of this? Because, the project will go nowhere with just me doing it! ;-) Here is what I am thinking of doing. 1. Import the Git repo into Bazaar. 2. Setup my Launchpad account to host the CTest project. 3. Let Ubuntu Hams at it as a team project. 4. Hack away! 5. ????? 6. Profit! (how'd that Slashdot meme sneak in here?) Some things to consider before I start, is this worthwhile? Is Perl a proper language to do this in (besides the fact that I feel quite comfortable in Perl, is it really the way forward for something that will become complex, multi-threaded, etc.?)? Besides YFKtest, does this duplicate any effort currently in *active* development that I am unaware of? There will likely be plenty of questions to be answered, but if the team is willing, I'll get my part done as quickly as I can. At this point it is somewhat usable, but not my experimental branch ATM (but that's all the fun, right?). Please, let me know if this is wanted by the Ubuntu Hams team! Maybe we could hack up something usable by Field Day. ;-) 73, de Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://n0nb.us/index.html _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
