On 3/17/2025 5:28 PM, Tommy Beene - KD4CHW via groups.io wrote:
Hi John,
I'm a new user to D-Rats and this is a bit confusing to me. Do I
follow the link on the D-Star website for 0.3.9 or go to your
repository and get a 0.4.? version?
If you are asking me, the answer will be the 0.4.7 version of course.
Or does it matter?
Versions older than 0.4.7 are not being maintained.
All versions older than 0.4.7 have a bug where they will discard received data under some conditions, which can result is lost data.
There have been other bug fixes.
The 0.3.9 version has not had any security updates in a very long time.
And if I need the 0.4.?, which link is it?
This is option 1, which has the least steps and at last check still works as far back as Windows 7. That is the one that is getting the most recent testing.
Option 2, has more steps but also works, now needs Windows 10 or later, and will probably stop working on Windows 10 shortly after Microsoft drops official support of Windows 10.
I have a Windows 10 and 11 computer and understand that I need Python
for both and can navigate that, just not sure if It matters what
version I install.
D-Rats requires Python 3 and GTK 3 and the prebuilt version of Python for Microsoft Windows is incomplete as compared to other platforms.
There is no pre-built version of GTK 3 for Microsoft Windows and the existing source will not build on Microsoft windows using the Visual Studio Express free compiler.
73,
-John
