I may have to resurrect my radar servers soon. On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 09:26 David A Aitcheson <[email protected]> wrote:
> The only irritation I am finding is the constantly changing file server > naming convention at the NWS part of NOAA. > > Just when I started to get a handle on the Radar links it all changed > again. > > Otherwise operators on the other end failing to "ACK" a message is out > of the programmers control. > > 73 > Dave > KB3EFS > > PS - I am now known as Dave "The Solar Dude" on some other groups.io > reflectors just to prevent confusion in a "Multi Dave" conversation. > > > > > On 5/23/19 10:15 AM, Curt Mills wrote: > > Anyone else have any reports, good or bad? > > > > FWIW: For the types of things I do the latest code has been stable for > me. > > > > We're getting close to a release and Tom will most likely be the one > doing > > it. No target date has been mentioned. If we run into any nasty bugs that > > might delay. > > > > > > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 6:16 PM Lee Bengston <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> I've played with it some and and have not found any issues. I put > together > >> a BPQ packet node in January, and I haven't fully back-filled what I had > >> "stolen" from aprs, so testing capability is fairly limited. From what > I > >> can tell, though, it's nice and stable. > >> > >> I do have a few questions about the source ( yeah, always one in the > crowd > >> :-) ) > >> > >> - In dlm.c noticed references to "curl-multi" and evidently the > capability > >> to leverage parallel downloading of map tiles as supported by libcurl. > Is > >> whether or not that is supported in our platform based on what version > of > >> curl is installed? > >> > >> - now that dlm.c handles downloading tiles, is there anything left in > >> tile_mgmnt.c that is still needed or could tile_mgmnt.h and > tile_mgmnt.c be > >> removed? It seems at a minimum the "getOneTile" portion of > tile_mgmnt.c is > >> no longer needed. > >> > >> Looks like you guys are doing a lot of cleanup in this release, so > brought > >> that up just in case there's some stuff there that could be streamlined > a > >> bit. > >> > >> Fyi, my Odroid XU4 (arm based) beats the pants off my Intel Celeron > based > >> laptop in terms of map download speed. Both are on Ubuntu 18.04 with > the > >> MATE desktop. Am wondering if the fact that the XU4 has an octa-core cpu > >> makes a difference with respect to curl-multi. > >> > >> The cleaner compiling is very noticeable, and the earlier note about > newer > >> compilers spitting out more warnings matches what I saw. Compiling is > >> cleaner in Debian Stretch and Ubuntu 16.04 than it is in Ubuntu 18.04, > but > >> it still builds fine. (And even in Ubuntu 18.04 the new code still > >> compiles a lot cleaner that the older code did) > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Lee > >> K5DAT > >> > >> > >> On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 9:57 AM Curt Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> We're planning to do a release within a few weeks. It might be as few > as > >> 2 > >>> weeks. > >>> > >>> Please check out / compile / thrash on the latest Github Xastir code. > >> Find > >>> anything that broke with our latest code fixes. Exercise all types of > >>> interfaces, messaging, bulletins, weather stations, tracking, following > >>> stations, maps, etc. Anything you can think of. > >>> > >>> The latest code compiles much cleaner and a lot of fixes went in to > make > >>> that possible. We'd like this release to function well, so whatever you > >> can > >>> do to exercise the code would be most appreciated. > >>> > >>> If you find a bug or odd operation, report it here: > >>> > >>> https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues > >>> > >>> Thanks! > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Curt, WE7U http://we7u.wetnet.net > >>> http://www.sarguydigital.com > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Xastir mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Xastir mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > -- Gerry Creager NSSL/CIMMS 405.325.6371 ++++++++++++++++++++++ *The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.* * Walt Disney* _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev
