On Wed, 23 Aug 2017, Dan Srebnick wrote:
I now know why the test cases fail!
There was a "temporary change" made in 2009 that altered Xastir from
the standard for counties/zones in order to accommodate viewing of
compressed-zone format alerts sent by Pete Loveall, AE5PL's server.
Backing out what appears to have been changed in alert.c and
recompiling now allows Xastir to work according to the spec and the
test cases succeed.
So is the temporary change necessary any more? I am generating my own
alerts according to the standard and not do use AE5PL's feed. So I
would prefer adhering to the standard. I've spent a couple dozen hours
trying to sort through this because documentation, standards, and
reality did not align!
Comments, thoughts please?
Fun. Well, Pete's alerts and my alerts are the current standard. You might try my alerts
off the Firenet servers to see if they're being received ok. It's likely that we didn't
go back and tweak the test cases to correspond to the current "standard".
Dale Huguley generated alerts for many years, so defined the standard with
those alerts. At some point he retired his server and we had to create new
ones. Pete came along first and tweaked the format slightly, so Xastir and
other APRS programs were tweaked to match. Sometime after that I wanted more
alerts (to get closer to what Dale used to generate), so brought up my own
server: It fills in some alerts that Pete doesn't generate.
--
Curt, WE7U. http://we7u.wetnet.net
APRS Usage Pages: http://we7u.wetnet.net/usage.html
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