I've been asked many times over the past few days where all of these new features that people see in the SVN log are going. Rather than continue to answer these questions privately, I thought I might as well inform the whole community because I'm sure there's others of you wondering the same things.
First, the geek-speak. If any of this confuses you, skip straight to the next paragraph. Since we released PowerSDR v1.10.4, we have entered a new era in our SVN development methodology. We are now taking the more typical approach of developing in branches and posting only bug fixes to the trunk. The advantage to this method is that we can more easily develop in our own SVN corner without stepping on each others toes while also keeping the trunk nice and stable. It also means easier merging between branches since we not constantly merging to the trunk and back. It can be confusing since the svn revisions continue to increment in the update window, but the binaries in the trunk stay at the same revision (and the version shown on the console doesn't change). This is normal and is not something to worry about -- keep reading. What all this means for you (the users): The features that we are working on are no longer available in the trunk. <pause for the collective gasp> Ok. Once the SVN junkies have regained their composure, we'll continue. Believe it or not, we thought this through before we implemented it. And rather than making you wonder which branch to jump into to test the latest features (and give us your valuable feedback), we thought we'd help simplify things as much as we can. What we've done is add a branch called test. We will be collecting the features that each developer finishes in the ./branches/test folder. This is where we would like to officially point the SVN junkies who have been struggling to get their fix from the trunk lately. The process to download this test branch is as follows: 1. Create a new folder. 2. Right click on the folder and select "SVN Checkout..." 3. Plug in the following URL: svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_windows/PowerSDR/branches/test/bin/Relea se (beware likely line break) 4. Click OK and the binary files will download. 5. Start PowerSDR in the new folder and enjoy the latest and greatest features. As always, please remember that SVN revisions are considered alpha versions and may contain bugs. If you are uncomfortable with this idea, we would recommend that you stick with using the latest official release (currently v1.10.4) or the trunk, whichever you prefer. If you still feel like all of this SVN stuff is over your head, take a look at the Tortoise SVN Quick Start Guide available on our download page/knowledge base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/Article.aspx?id=10220 Have a great weekend and Happy Flexin'. :) Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
