On 01/12/2020 21:02, Dave Slotter, W3DJS wrote:
Hi Bill,
Thank you for all that you do for WSJT-X development. Because of your
contributions, tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of amateur
radio operators enjoy operating digital modes with other amateur radio
operators around the globe.
That said, under Linux (and probably also for Mac and Windows), using
the command line, when I type in "wsjtx --version", a GUI dialog is
displayed with the WSJT-X version, but that doesn't help a shell
script trying to get the WSJT-X version programmatically.
I wrote an update script for Linux, and while it could in theory check
the version on the website and check the installed version and then
determine whether to download the newer version (or not), it is
hampered by this limitation.
I did discover that there is a version number stored in
$HOME/.config/WSJT-X.ini, but that is only a preference setting, and
does not guarantee the version installed. Likewise, under
$HOME/.local/share/WSJT-X/logs/wsjtx_syslog_YYYY-MM.log the program
version is logged upon application startup, but once again, that's not
a guarantee of installed version.
*May I please request that a) "wsjtx --version" return version string
to stdout and b) the operation is non-blocking?*
*While I'm at it, may I please additionally request that c)
wsjtx --help also output to stdout ?*
Is there an issue tracker for WSJT-X? I'd be happy to enter these
concerns into there directly. I went to SourceForge and didn't see any
mechanism for this.
Thanks and 73,
--
Dave Slotter, W3DJS <https://www.qrz.com/db/W3DJS>
Hi Dave,
that would have to be a non-Windows platform only change, in fact
non-macOS as well really. Windows and macOS don't normally have a
console attached when running the application. It would be easier to
provide a command line tool packaged with WSJT-X that did what you are
looking for.
73
Bill
G4WJS.
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