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

[Joe T. <jo...@pr...>]

RR, good idea!  -- Joe, K1JT

On 8/31/2017 7:31 PM, Jaroslav Skarvada wrote:
> 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 that it completely superseded WSPR-X. But no problem, I will probaly close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  WSPR-X is obsolete, and no longer supported.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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