On 04/09/2014 19:24, Joe Taylor wrote: > Hi all, Hi Joe, > > I'm home again after recent travels, once again getting back up to speed > on all the good things done by others. Hope the travels were enjoyable, I gather from Dave G4RGK that the WX in France wasn't too pleasant. > > We have a lot of good new code, documentation, and development aids in > the repository. Can we agree that it's reasonable to plan for a beta > release of WSJT-X v1.4 before too many more weeks have passed? I guess this is aimed at me more than most. I'd love to say "Yes let's do it!" but I'm afraid my opinion hasn't moved on much from the last time we had this discussion. For this I must apologise since I have not been able to apply as much effort since then as I would have liked. I have only really been able to respond to issue reports and requests and not the the core issues that I know are still there. Here is a quick summary:
CAT in general - there is a fundamental flaw in the strategy I have used that can cause the frequency to walk up/down the band on some rig/interface combinations. I know basically how to fix it but the changes will need much testing since they lie largely in the remaining MainWindow class CAT code which is defect prone due its close coupling with the rest of the application logic. Hamlib FT817/857/897 enhancements - this project is currently stalled on what appears to be a show stopper. Unfortunately since I am relying on undocumented CAT commands for these rigs the non-cooperation of one of the key commands has stalled my efforts. I need to put in a lot of time trying to work around this issue before giving up since this rig group is such a popular and common feature in many shacks. HRD - recent issues raised by Mike W9MDB have revealed what appears to be serious problem talking to HRD when the HRD logbook is active. Given that one of the main reasons for using HRD to interface to the rig is because the user uses the HRD logbook, I believe this issue is critical for HRD users. Mike is helping with trying to get to the root cause which currently seems to be at the HRD end, but we don't know that for sure yet. Again undocumented commands are problematic since HRD don't document any of their TCP/IP interface. Documentation - when I asked if anyone would like to help with documentation of the new config and CAT features, Chase W4TI kindly offered to help and I thought we were making good progress with me feeding him technical details of the implementation and its implications and he starting to make extensive edits to the user guide. Unfortunately this effort stalled for which I must take some blame for not posting enough public information of our work progress. Chase has now stepped back from the project feeling that he was mislead and misinformed about what was needed. This is great shame as people stepping up to contribute are hard to find, but that is where we stand. Of these areas the 1st and last to a lesser extent are probably the ones I would most worry about as they potentially effect all users. > > -- Joe, K1JT 73 Bill G4WJS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
