[chirp_devel] New chirp developer starting to work on FT-50 driver

[Tom Hayward]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Mark Adams via chirp_devel
<chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I am new to chirp development. I thought I would take a shot at rewriting
> the FT-50 driver to the new bitwise format and hopefully get the driver
> working. I know several people have attempted this in the past but it hasn't
> quite been completed. If anyone has worked on this driver before and has any
> info that may help I'd appreciate it if you sent it my way.

Thanks for stepping up!

There's an existing issue you can use to tag your work:
http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/1233

> Also, I've been looking through several of the drivers and they all seem to
> have a little different style. Anyone know which driver is closest to the
> "ideal" style so I can model my code in the same form? Or perhaps at least
> which Yaesu driver is the best one to follow.

Strictly speaking, style should adhere to PEP 8. I like to think the
VX5 driver is pretty clean, since I've spent a lot of time on it.

Tom KD7LXL