Bill, Do you want me to volunteer to write it?
-- Dave Slotter, W3DJS <https://www.qrz.com/db/W3DJS> On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 4:53 PM Bill Somerville <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >
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