[chirp_devel] Saying hello

[Dan Smith]

Hi David,

> I would like to offer my services in any way I can to make Chirp even
> better.

Excellent, we're glad to have you :)

> ==README== Chirp is a free, open-source, multiplatform tool for
> programming your amateur radio. It supports a large number of
> manufacturers and models, as well as provides a way to interface with
> multiple data sources and formats.
> 
> Complete documentation may be found at the Chirp website at 
> http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp
> 
> For a list of radios supported by Chirp, see the file
> "README.support"

Looks fine.

> ==INSTALL== This file describes the installation of Chirp without
> package management on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
> This sort of thing may be your only choice because 1) a package has
> not yet been made for your OS or distribution, 2) the packaged
> version is obsolete, or 3) you want to try a daily build.
> 
> 
> For Debian, Ubuntu, and related systems, the following packages are 
> required: python python-gtk2 python-libxml2 python-libxslt1 
> python-serial python-support
> 
> For Redhat and Fedora based systems, the following packages are
> required: (spaceholder)
> 
> Once these packages are installed, you can run Chirp directly from
> the distribution directory by typing "./chirpw".  If you want to
> install it properly, type this: sudo python setup.py install --record
> files.txt This will install the package and create a list of files
> that were added to your system.  If you want to deinstall Chirp, type
> this: sudo rm $(cat files.txt) This will cause rm(1) to take its list
> of arguments from the file named "files.txt" and remove those files
> from the system.  If you forgot to create "files.txt", you can simply
> reinstall the way it is shown here and continue on your way.

Yep, nice, thanks.

> ==README.support==

The problem with this is that it will be come outdated in a week and I
don't want to maintain this file separately. We already have this data
encoded in the tree, and we have the share/make_supported.py script
which creates a very detailed HTML version of what you have here. See
its output here:

  http://chirp.danplanet.com/download/0.2.2/Model_Support.html

How about we alter that script to have a text output mode as well and
then either mention running that in the README file and/or generate the
supported list at build time when I create the sdist package?

For the final version, could you submit in mercurial patch form? The
repository is located here (for the moment):

  http://d-rats.com/hg/chirp.hg

Be sure to mention your bug in the commit log, in the format:

  Fixes Bug #122

Thanks!

-- 
Dan Smith
www.danplanet.com
KK7DS

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