I’ll second the request to continue to support other OSes. I hope to eventually have enough spare time to try and back port a linux version to Mac (since that’s all I have). So I am in favor of using anything that is cross platform, but has stable enough toolkit to be practical.
Since I’ve never even had time to look at the state of the current linux version, I won’t even say it’s my 2 cents, more like my 1/2 cent worth.
73,
-debbie, N9DN
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On Jan 10, 2025, at 03:44, David Ranch via groups.io <dstar@...> wrote:
Hello John,
I can appreciate the need to refactor the code though abandoning Linux is a bad idea IMHO. I also totally get the frustration on the ever changing UI toolkits but maybe consider using FLTK like what Fldigi uses to support Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, etc. on multiple architectures like x86, ARM, etc.
If nothing else, consider coding the new Windows "only" program with Wine-compatibilty in mind so Linux can still run it pretty well for x86. Running under ARM is possible but the setup gets complex fast.
Just my $0.02
--David
KI6ZHD
On January 10, 2025 2:54:26 AM GMT+13:00, "John E. Malmberg via groups.io" <wb8tyw@...> wrote:
On 1/8/2025 10:49 PM, Steve Stroh via groups.io wrote:
This is a cool development, and I’m mentioning it in this week’s issue of
Zero Retries newsletter.
Thanks.
It is going to take a while as I plan to try to document it as a teaching project as I go to help people to contribute. There is also a lot of stuff that I need to learn.
Volunteer testers will be needed for testing devices that I do not have and really will need some help keeping the wiki at up to date.
As I mention in Zero Retries, I hope that DRATS2 can implement the “big
flip” necessary to be able to use DV Fast Data mode in the Icom D-Star
radios that include that mode.
As I understand it, and I could be very wrong, the Fast Data mode is similar to an Ethernet bridge connected to the local network that the computer is on and can be configured for tcp/ip routed over that bridge.
In that case, a d-rats repeater would treat it as any other tcp/ip connection, so existing e-rats clients could connect to a d-rats repeater that is accessible over that bridged network.
Regards,
-John
