Hi all, I have some further thoughts on topics raised in my message earlier today.
As I stated there, the planned incorporation of all WSJT "slow modes" (JT4, JT9, JT65, and WSPR) in WSJT-X is nearing completion. Some time ago we noted that the usage and program behavior in the WSJT "fast modes" (FSK441, JT6M, JTMS, and ISCAT) are sufficiently different from the slow modes that it seems best to isolate them in separate programs. Doing this would leave WSJT-X and MAP65 as the only active branches in our present SVN repository. In practice this means primarily WSJT-X, since I regard MAP65 as essentially "complete" and in need only of occasional maintenance updates. A Qt-based program supporting the fast modes would then be required, to replace the current Python-based WSJT10. I had imagined that this might be a next major project to tackle, from scratch... but in fact this may not be necessary. Christo Hristov, LZ2HV, has already built a WSJT fast-modes program. He calls it "MSHV", and it looks very good. It has all the WSJT fast modes and essentially all the fast-mode features, with some evident improvements. Its user interface is all new (but has essentially the same look and feel as WSJT). Its encoders and decoders are direct translations from WSJT's Fortran into C++. In short, to me it no longer seems worthwhile to think of starting a new WSJT-fast-modes program. Instead, we could use one of these options, or some combination of both: 1. We could simply direct WSJT fast-mode users to Christo's program, perhaps posting links to it on the WSJT web site. ... and/or ... 2. We could start with his source code, but build our own executables from it -- no doubt modifying it in some ways, probably minor at first. In this case we would give Christo (and his collaborators) full credit for their work. (It is licensed under GPL v3.0 -- as it must be, since it's ultimately based on WSJT.) I haven't tried compiling Christo's program yet. As you'll see on his SourceForge web page, https://sourceforge.net/projects/mshv/ -- see also http://lz2hv.org/mshv -- he builds with Qt 4.8.6, MinGW, and gcc 4.9.2, and he statically links everything(!). So compiling with our standard tool set will take a bit a bit of effort, at first. But I imagine that it would be not too difficult to transition his code to our set of build tools and our manner of packaging, if we choose to do that. Christo posts installable packages for Windows XP/7 and for 32- and 64-bit Linux. The packaging uses a rather different approach than ours, and perhaps has some licensing issues. I would be interested in the views of others in our development group! -- Joe, K1JT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
