On Tuesday, June 27, 2017 9:12:55 AM PDT David Ranch wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> > If you're running Xastir on an RPi you will need to build from source
> > since the version of Xastir installed by raspian is ancient and
> > unfortunately was the version handed out to 100+ attendees of the RPi
> > workshop at SeaPac a few weeks ago.
> 
> This is a common issue with stable applications that live out of their
> SCM system and don't create official releases very often. Even with an
> official release being published, most distro package managers are just
> volunteers and they aren't always on top of when something new is
> available.  Regardless, step one is to get a new Xastir version released
> and then we can pursue with the Debian, Fedora, etc. package managers.
> 
> Do we think the current state of Xastir is worthy of an official release?

2.0.8 stable was released last July and is in most distributions,  including 
Debian on 
which Rasbian is based.   Imagine my surprise at the workshop when I found a 
version 
so old that the Internet maps didn't even work.  At the time I said I would 
look into why it 
wasn't picked up for the RPi but just haven't taken the time yet.  

As for a new release I think there are a couple of things in the latest that 
might make a 
release worthwhile but I'll let Curt speak up about that.
-- 
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