[Xastir] [Xastir-dev] ATTENTION: Preparing for next release: Please thrash on the code

[Jason Godfrey]

I ran it for a Bike MS event on Sunday, no issues. (Although I only used a
network interface for this event.)

- Jason

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 9:16 AM Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone else have any reports, good or bad?
>
> FWIW: For the types of things I do the latest code has been stable for me.
>
> We're getting close to a release and Tom will most likely be the one doing
> it. No target date has been mentioned. If we run into any nasty bugs that
> might delay.
>
>
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 6:16 PM Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I've played with it some and and have not found any issues. I put
> together
> > a BPQ packet node in January, and I haven't fully back-filled what I had
> > "stolen" from aprs, so testing capability is fairly limited.  From what I
> > can tell, though, it's nice and stable.
> >
> > I do have a few questions about the source ( yeah, always one in the
> crowd
> > :-) )
> >
> > - In dlm.c noticed references to "curl-multi" and evidently the
> capability
> > to leverage parallel downloading of map tiles as supported by libcurl. Is
> > whether or not that is supported in our platform based on what version of
> > curl is installed?
> >
> > - now that dlm.c handles downloading tiles, is there anything left in
> > tile_mgmnt.c that is still needed or could tile_mgmnt.h and tile_mgmnt.c
> be
> > removed?  It seems at a minimum the "getOneTile" portion of tile_mgmnt.c
> is
> > no longer needed.
> >
> > Looks like you guys are doing a lot of cleanup in this release, so
> brought
> > that up just in case there's some stuff there that could be streamlined a
> > bit.
> >
> > Fyi, my Odroid XU4 (arm based) beats the pants off my Intel Celeron based
> > laptop in terms of map download speed.  Both are on Ubuntu 18.04 with the
> > MATE desktop. Am wondering if the fact that the XU4 has an octa-core cpu
> > makes a difference with respect to curl-multi.
> >
> > The cleaner compiling is very noticeable, and the earlier note about
> newer
> > compilers spitting out more warnings matches what I saw.  Compiling is
> > cleaner in Debian Stretch and Ubuntu 16.04 than it is in Ubuntu 18.04,
> but
> > it still builds fine.  (And even in Ubuntu 18.04 the new code still
> > compiles a lot cleaner that the older code did)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Lee
> > K5DAT
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 9:57 AM Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > We're planning to do a release within a few weeks. It might be as few
> as
> > 2
> > > weeks.
> > >
> > > Please check out / compile / thrash on the latest Github Xastir code.
> > Find
> > > anything that broke with our latest code fixes. Exercise all types of
> > > interfaces, messaging, bulletins, weather stations, tracking, following
> > > stations, maps, etc. Anything you can think of.
> > >
> > > The latest code compiles much cleaner and a lot of fixes went in to
> make
> > > that possible. We'd like this release to function well, so whatever you
> > can
> > > do to exercise the code would be most appreciated.
> > >
> > > If you find a bug or odd operation, report it here:
> > >
> > >   https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Curt, WE7U        http://we7u.wetnet.net
> > > http://www.sarguydigital.com
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