[chirp_devel] The End of Days - #495

[Dan Smith]

> This is necessary because the driver is still given the old MemoryMap
> when the user loads the image from a file, and will break uploading on
> Python 3. Ideally, the directory module should initialize the driver
> with MemoryMapBytes based on a class attribute.

Ah, okay.

> On another note, MemoryMapBytes returns str on Python 2, and we should
> probably make it return python-future bytes. Many breakages may occur
> so this should be tested thoroughly.

Yep, I think I'm going to need to do that for the icom driver fixes I'm doing right now, so I'll put this in the queue.

> This is the header that the official Windows programmer uses, and the
> change will allow CHIRP images to be read by the official app (and
> vice versa). I really should have noticed this earlier when I first
> submitted the driver.

Okay, good reason. I'll be pushing that last up in a bit.

--Dan