On 17/11/2018 05:24, Greg Beam wrote:
At this point, I’ve no idea how things are working with WSJT-X builds
(Win32 or Linux) other than what’s being formally published by the
WSJT Dev team.
Hi Greg,
welcome back!
The relevant changes can be summarized as:
1) we are now using git DVCS. I think you are up to speed on this
already and are aware of the new git repos on the WSJT SourceForge
project page. The old svn repo is still there but for reference only, no
changes have been posted to it for some time and it is effectively
read-only and frozen.
2) The WSJT-X git repo is only being pushed once for each release
shortly after the release is announced, we have been forced to do that
by some unfortunate misuses of unfinished development code. Note that
this still goes much further that the minimum requirement for Open
Source applications, to make their source code publicly available
matching any public releases, since we still make the full change
history visible as well to anyone who cares. We realize that this
somewhat reduces the benefit to those who like to track the latest
developments by building from pre-release sources, but as it has proved
impossible to control arbitrary and unauthorized redistribution of
incomplete development works; we have taken that capability away.
3) The minimum Qt version required to build WSJT-X from WSJT-X v2.0.0
RC4 onwards in v5.5, this has been moved on so we can take advantage of
many Qt enhancements. We may well move on again with the minimum Qt
version, perhaps to v5.9 or even v5.10, this may even be forced upon us
to support the latest macOS version at some point soon. If and when this
happens we will be forced to drop support for MS Windows XP and Vista.
Continuing to support old versions of Qt and old operating system
versions will eventually greatly disadvantage those running on more
contemporary operating system versions and we will only do that for a
limited time.
73
Bill
G4WJS.
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