Hi Dave,
a universal diff patch against the current SourceForge git repo master
branch is fine as it is a small change.
73
Bill
G4WJS.
On 02/12/2020 00:54, Dave Slotter, W3DJS wrote:
Bill,
Ok, I volunteered myself to write it. It works and seems to reasonably
fit within the existing Qt / CMake environment.
How do I get the changes to you? AppVersion.cpp is 49 lines long and
CMakeLists.txt has 10 new lines.
Do you want a Git pull request or do you want a patch file or should I
just send the changed files as attachments?
Please advise, and thanks.
--
Dave Slotter, W3DJS <https://www.qrz.com/db/W3DJS>
On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 5:25 PM Dave Slotter, W3DJS
<[email protected] <mailto:slotter%[email protected]>> wrote:
Bill,
Do you want me to volunteer to write it?
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Dave Slotter, W3DJS <https://www.qrz.com/db/W3DJS>
On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 4:53 PM Bill Somerville
<[email protected] <mailto:[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,
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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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