Hello Joe,
The KVASD decoder is necessarily an extra nuisance because of its patented algorithm and non-open source code. However, since 99% of our users run Windows, the nuisance is well contained in practice. Moreover, the improved sensitivity of soft-decision decoding makes KVASD well worth the extra effort -- especially for EME, the original target purpose for JT65.
I think you underestimate how many people use WSJT and WSJT-X on Linux! The software that you and the WSJT team is *very* popular these days! I feel it's Linux share is growing and growing and I agree with Chuck, WA7KGX that less and less Linux users are using 32bit OSes. Sure, we can install the various 32bit libraries but it really does bloat things up when it really shouldn't be necessary.
Understanding that KVASD is closed sourced, maybe someone could compile a 64bit version to be available next to the 32bit version? For me, I'm running Centos 6.5 with glibc-2.12, libgcc-4.4.7, gcc-gfortran-4.4.7, qt-x11-4.8.4, and fftw-3.2.1.
Thanks for your consideration --David KI6ZHD _______________________________________________ Wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/wsjt-devel
