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

Thu May 23 07:50:41 PDT 2019

I may have to resurrect my radar servers soon.

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 09:26 David A Aitcheson <david.aitcheson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The only irritation I am finding is the constantly changing file server
> naming convention at the NWS part of NOAA.
>
> Just when I started to get a handle on the Radar links it all changed
> again.
>
> Otherwise operators on the other end failing to "ACK" a message is out
> of the programmers control.
>
> 73
> Dave
> KB3EFS
>
> PS - I am now known as Dave "The Solar Dude" on some other groups.io
> reflectors just to prevent confusion in a "Multi Dave" conversation.
>
>
>
>
> On 5/23/19 10:15 AM, Curt Mills 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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