On Tuesday, June 27, 2017 10:38:24 AM PDT Ken Koster wrote: > 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.
Replying to myself I take that last back. I just checked OpenSUSE which is what I use and they're still back on 2.0.6, even on the Tumbleweed rolling release. So Debian is the only one I can confirm is good. > 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. -- Ken - N7IPB Email: [email protected] JID: [email protected] PGP Sig: F42B EF90 3CD3 31C7 3056 122E 993A 7B2E 5138 C42A “I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand” -Ada Lovelace
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