Hi Joe,
On 4/25/22 10:29, Joe Taylor via wsjt-devel wrote:
> When I started work on WSJT some 21 years ago, my principal goal was to
> help bring amateur weak-signal communication techniques into the
> twenty-first century -- and in doing so, to help spread knowledge of
> modern communication theory into the amateur radio community.
Many thanks for all you have done over the years for our hobby. We
really appreciate all the work you and the WSJT-X team have done to
develop the weak signal modes.
>
> By 2005 WSJT was well established but mostly used for special purposes
> like meteor scatter and EME ("moonbounce"). A stable development path
> had been established: the program was fully Open Source, licensed under
> the GNU General Public License, and it could be built by anyone from
> source code using freely available compilers and development tools. At
> this time WSJT was coded in a combination of Python, Fortran, and C. A
> re-write in 2012 created the present program, WSJT-X, using the Qt
> platform and C++ language in addition to Fortran and C.
>
> To help gauge the extent to which my original educational goals are
> being met, we in the core development team are interested to know how
> many WSJT-X users are currently building the program for themselves,
> from source code. If you are doing so, we would appreciate an email
> response -- either publicly, to this list, or in a private email to me.
> All responses will be appreciated, but particular things you might want
> to mention in your message include these:
>
> - Building on what platform? Windows, Linux, macOS, or other?
Linux
>
> - What are your particular programming skills and interests?
I've programmed in BASIC. I know some C, C++, Python and Bash. Decades
ago I tried to help a friend, that was going to college to be an EE,
with Fortran. But, that was so long ago; I would be totally lost trying
to do anything in Fortran. While I know a little bit about a few
languages; I don't considered myself a programmer by any stretch of
imagination.
>
> - Are you making changes to the code? If so, toward what end?
No.
>
> - What portions of the code have you studied well enough to understand?
I haven't studied any of the code.
73
Stan
KM4HQE
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