Greg – thank you, clear and concise.
Another observation, probably already known but anyway: clearly FT8 usage has
spiked today now that an official downloadable release is available. I am CQing
on 20m and getting multiple callers. But no decodes. I have to stop CQing and
wait several periods to see if some of the callers stop and then I decode the
remaining one. So is there anything in the works to improve this i.e decode all
of what is calling or even just one of them when there are more than one
responding?
Thanks again,
Erik.
From: Greg Beam [mailto:ki7m...@gmail.com]
Sent: 11 July 2017 08:37
To: WSJT software development <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJTX RC1
Erik, All,
At this point in the release cycle, its beneficial to the development team to
test the installation, as well as new features, on as many instances as
possible. Bill created installers for most, if not all, the supported
distributions. We should be testing that release, and providing feedback of our
observations. The revision numbers mean very little to end users at at present.
As for laymen terms, it gets complicated "real quick", so there's not much
point in hashing through that.
Continuing to build from the development branch will only slow things down. I
can't say for certain, however, based on previous release cycles there will be
one or more additional RC's before the final release.
Unless something dramatic happens, there won't be any major changes made that
warrants dev-branch builds for the masses. What is most needed now is hammering
out the proposed release code. If something major crops up, they can always
post another RC.
The more testing we do on the RC revision will only help to ensure a trouble
free product later down the line. Unless your one of the core developers, or a
distribution package maintainers, building from source code is not the best
approach.
I am running the revision Bill posted for Windows. Installation went without
issue, and seems to be running as expected. That revision-(1.8.0-RC1)-is what
we need to be testing.
73's
Greg, KI7MT
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:57 PM, Erik -
<erikcarl...@live.com<mailto:erikcarl...@live.com>> wrote:
[cid:image001.jpg@01D2FA22.AF2CDA30]
I guess I’m having a ‘duh’ moment: r7848 is wsjtx-1.8.0-rc1 (I presume) ………..
if I update svn and compile I get r7848 but it is 1.7.1-devel and this is what
I do not understand due to my total lack of knowledge. If someone could tell me
in layman’s terms why that is I would be grateful.
Erik EI4KF.
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