For almost five years FRS has been making announcements about a New Architecture/Deep Impact development which, it was claimed, would permit implementation of enhancements such as independent mode/filter etc selection on the Multiwatch VFO; implementation of Multiwatch and independent mode/filter etc on the optional second receiver; totally separate panadaptor panels for the main and second receivers; rewriting of the GUI to sort out the appalling mess created when the second receiver was added (the epitome of an afterthought). Additionally, many of the user enhancement requests (now standing at some 644) have, in the past, been annotated with wording to the effect that implementation would be dependent upon the NA/DI. Not to mention the many other enhancements requested directly by Brian Lloyd et al.
Now that the Deep Impact development has, seemingly, been abandoned, an announcement apparently being made at the Dayton Dinner in early May but advised to the wider Flex community only a few days ago by Neal Campbell, (neither confirmed nor denied by FRS themselves) the question is: What happens next? If DI has been abandoned does that also mean that all these enhancements have also been abandoned and will never see the light of day? If incremental enhancements are going to be the order of the day, what are we talking about in terms of the above enhancements...another five years...ten years...twenty years...sometime...never? Many Flex customers are in danger of falling off their perch due to an over abundance of patience...don't you think you owe them something more than the contempt you have shown over the last few years? G4PNX _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
