Re: [Hamlib-developer] Re: hamlib-1.1.0 release note

[Frank S. <vk...@ix...>]

Nate Bargmann wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:46:51AM -0600, Frank Singleton wrote:
> 
> > GETTING AS MANY BACKENDS AS POSSIBLE WRITTEN !!
> 
> Agreed!
> 
> > 2.  Do we setup 1 or 2  accounts that allow Suse
> >     participants to  contribute. This would be better
> >     than me trying to manage 30 people as they come and
> >     go from Suse's program.
> >
> > 3. Long term maintenance issues etc..
> 
> Would it be possible for the primary SuSE contact to be able to act as an
> agent for the contributors they line up?  Thus you have one or two folks
> from SuSE who, presumably, will be able to be associated with hamlib on
> a long term basis, at least longer than a university term.
> 

Yes this is what I am hinting. Kinda like
setting up say suse1 and suse2 and having say Kai as
our primary point of contact

> Also, a useful bit of code would be to have them actually build
> applications using hamlib to test the API and find the bugs. :)
> In the future they could work on such things as wrappers for other
> languages as well as rig backends, which are the priority now.
> 

What about some GTK apps that can load different rigs and test
the API etc..

In fact setting freq,mode and bandwidth and PTT should be sufficient
for say PSK31 etc..

> BTW, I have been looking at the 747 code the past couple days and I have
> a rather good handle on it, so I'm going to compile hamlib this weekend
> and start testing with my '920.  The basic commands are similar and I'll
> need to careful with a couple of them in testrig.
> 
> Before hacking out a new backend I suppose it would be better to work
> with the CVS code now than the 1.1.0 release?
> 
> 73, de Nate >>


Yes, please use CVS, as I have moved the yaesu rigs into
yaesu/ directory. Place your code in the yaesu
directory. ie yaesu/ft920.[ch]

If you look at the Makefile.am, you can add the '920
in there also.

I have tested the yaesu/ stuff on my FT747 and everything
still works (hi hi..) after the reorg. Dont use
the old style directory ft920/ as I will clean it out
soon. (ft747/ ft847/ ft920/ etc..)



-- 
Cheers / Frank 

73's de vk3fcs & km5ws