[Xastir] So, a question on all this building...

[Norm, VK3XCI]

I don't mind being 0.0.2 versions behind... (Story of my life!).

It's stable and just works out of the box





73 de Norm, VK3XCI
Mildura, Australia
The Wintersun City
QF15bt.

Tom Russo wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 09:47:55AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>> On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Chris wrote:
>>
>>> With a bunch of people running Ubuntu, why not just 'sudo apt-get
>>> install xastir' ?
>>>
>>> Is the version shipped with 9.10's repositories lacking some major features?
>> Can't answer that as I don't run Ubuntu nor know what version of
>> Xastir binary they have.
> 
> Because the Ubuntu repositories routinely stick at old versions.  As I 
> understand it, the package maintainer is neither an Xastir user nor a 
> subscriber to any Xastir list.  In fact, I thought I read recently that the 
> package maintainer was no longer actively maintaining it, and they were 
> looking for a new one.
> 
> If you want point-and-click installation, you are at the mercy of the binary
> maintainer.  If you want current code, you need to roll your own.
> 
> I believe the last time I checked, it was still 1.9.4.  We're on 1.9.8 now.
> It is possible that they are at 1.9.6 -- if so, they bumped it shortly before
> the 1.9.8 release.
> 
> 
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