Is there a tarball of the CVS snapshot to download and build? I like to keep my sources separate so I can "roll back" simply.
Thanks EKg On Tue, July 28, 2009 17:51, Curt, WE7U wrote: > > As some of you know WXSVR has been down for a month or so. This > means the NWS weather alert packets that light up zones on our maps have > not been happening. > > Pete Loveall, AE5PL, has been working on a replacement server. It's > generating packets now and I've been asked to make a change to support a > slightly different format in Xastir. I've done so in a temporary fashion > and committed the change to CVS. > > Pete is going to enable the old format shortly and sent it out for > perhaps six months or so. That should give the majority of Xastir users > time to upgrade before the old format is turned off again. This change in > formats is to support alert packets to Kenwood radios on RF. > > Like I said, the change to decode the new format in Xastir is not > the permanent change. Anyone wishing to see weather alerts RIGHT NOW > (instead of tomorrow) can upgrade to the latest CVS and take > advantage of the temp change. As of midnight or early morning hours all of > you should start seeing alerts again whether you've upgraded Xastir or > not. > > I'll see to implementing the permanent change then notify everyone > when it's ready. I'll probably put out new snapshots once we're happy with > it. I don't know yet whether this would be enough reason for a new stable > release, but it might. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> > APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> > Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown > Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. > The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > > -- ======================================================================= Eric K Germann ekgermann (at) cctec (dot) com Phone: 419 605 4026 :::: Fax: 419 567 2053 PGP/GPG Fingerprint: B047 5EFD 3851 6D79 A851 709B 07FC 9F13 7496 9066 "Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying." -- Martin Luther ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
