Hi Greg All understood. I must have missed the announcement that installers for 1.8.0 are available for download now.
As you note, we should concentrate on testing that. 73 Charlie > Erik, All, > > At this point in the release cycle, its beneficial to the development team > to test the installation, as well as new features, on as many instances as > possible. Bill created installers for most, if not all, the supported > distributions. We should be testing that release, and providing feedback > of > our observations. The revision numbers mean very little to end users at at > present. As for laymen terms, it gets complicated "real quick", so there's > not much point in hashing through that. > > Continuing to build from the development branch will only slow things > down. > I can't say for certain, however, based on previous release cycles there > will be one or more additional RC's before the final release. > > Unless something dramatic happens, there won't be any major changes made > that warrants dev-branch builds for the masses. What is most needed now is > hammering out the proposed release code. If something major crops up, they > can always post another RC. > > The more testing we do on the RC revision will only help to ensure a > trouble free product later down the line. Unless your one of the core > developers, or a distribution package maintainers, building from source > code is not the best approach. > > I am running the revision Bill posted for Windows. Installation went > without issue, and seems to be running as expected. That > revision-(1.8.0-RC1)-is what we need to be testing. > > 73's > Greg, KI7MT > > > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:57 PM, Erik - <erikcarl...@live.com> wrote: > >> I guess Iâm having a âduhâ moment: r7848 is wsjtx-1.8.0-rc1 (I >> presume) >> â¦â¦â¦.. if I update svn and compile I get r7848 but it is >> 1.7.1-devel and >> this is what I do not understand due to my total lack of knowledge. If >> someone could tell me in laymanâs terms why that is I would be >> grateful. >> >> >> >> Erik EI4KF. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> wsjt-devel mailing list >> wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! > http://sdm.link/slashdot_______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
