Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR-X in Fedora

[Jaroslav S. <jsk...@re...>]

Hi Joe,

thanks for info. I have WSJT-X packaging on my todo list, but I didn't know
that it completely superseded WSPR-X. But no problem, I will probaly close
the WSPR-X inclusion request and will open new one for WSJT-X

73! Jaroslav, OK2JRQ
 

----- Original Message -----
> Hi Jaroslav,
> 
> Thanks for your email.  I wish I could have saved you the effort already
> put into this task, because I do not recommend packaging WSPR-X for any
> platform or distribution.  WSPR-X is obsolete, and no longer supported.
> Its functions are limited, and anyway now much better served by WSJT-X.
> 
> 	-- 73, Joe, K1JT
> 
> On 8/31/2017 5:39 PM, Jaroslav Skarvada wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am trying to get WSPR-X into Fedora [1].
> > 
> > During the packaging I have found few issues:
> > 
> > - I had to apply the attached patch in order to compile the
> > code under Fedora, otherwise it wanted to link with the palir-02.dll
> > 
> > - in the SVN few source files had executable permission set
> > 
> > - files in SVN have mixed line endings, most of the files have LF,
> > but there are also files with CR + LF ending
> > 
> > - I wasn't sure which version the WSPR-X is, for the SVN revision
> > 8046 the GUI app shows 0.9, but there is written 1.3 in the
> > CMakeLists.txt, so I marked it as SVN snapshot after the 0.9 release.
> > 
> > - during the build it created empty /usr/bin/kvasd file, so I didn't
> > package it
> > 
> > - the provided icon is very small (only 32 x 32 pixels), it would
> > be great to have 128 x 128 pixels PNG at least. If you don't have
> > resources to create it, I think our design team could help
> > 
> > - it's missing .desktop file, I created one (in attachment)
> > 
> > 73! Jaroslav, OK2JRQ
> > 
> > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1487419
> > 
> > 
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