On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 23:36:19 -0400 Steve Huston <[email protected]> wrote:
> Been off the air with APRS for about five years (antenna reached out > and touched by a maple, which got trimmed back today and then new > hardware put up on the house). I looked on xastir.org and saw that > compiling is probably the best way to go to get running again, but > wasn't sure which version to grab. On a whim I looked in macports and > was able to build 2.0.4 easily, which I now have running to at least > prove things are working. > > Where should I be grabbing the latest (and/or stable) source to > compile? I see mention from Tom earlier in the month that 2.1.0 is > the current stable, but I don't see a tag for that when I'm looking at > the CVS tree, in fact if I choose the stable tag everything looks to > be three years old. Or is 2.0.4 not too bad, and I should be fine > with it? > > Sorry to be an old noob... maybe now that I've got something in the > air for APRS again I'll pay more attention to this list I've been > subscribed to for years :D > I'm no Xastir expert so take what I say with a grain (or two) of salt. I believe that the latest CVS version is what you should be using and once you have followed the instructions provided to set up and install using CVS it is very simple to keep it updated. Just run the "update-xastir" script provided in the xastir directory/folder. Fred _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
