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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>No, it doesn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>I abandoned all those changes because they didn’t have the requisite testing that would allow them into the baseline.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>The only radio I have that is compatible is a Baofeng UV-5R. So far, I can’t Chirp to talk to the serial port at all. I select download, choose the COM port, and hit OK, and nothing happens.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>I’m more than willing to try my hand at getting the specific driver you need working for you. Just let me know which. Better yet, file a bug: make sure you mark it PY3, so everybody knows that it isn’t a “general” issue, just one for Python3.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>I have been able to upload and download to my radio in the past, but it might not have been on Windows. I know I did it on my Raspberry Pi. Maybe on Linux, too. Right now, I’m in Windows. Don’t know if I have everything setup in the 3.9 version of Python or not. Might be that I only have it in the 2.7 version, or it might be that I only have it in the installed version of Chirp. Haven’t gotten that far to look, yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Joe Pizzi<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> chirp_devel-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com <chirp_devel-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Ranch via chirp_devel<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 25, 2021 9:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [chirp_devel] Python 3 status<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Hello Joe,<br><br>Does this mean all of the changes you made in your personal repo are now in Dan's new Chirp Github repo?<br><br>--David<br>KI6ZHD<br><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 08/24/2021 06:45 PM, Joe Pizzi via chirp_devel wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>I removed my unofficial repository.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Joe Pizzi<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>-----Original Message-----<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>From: <a href="mailto:chirp_devel-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_devel-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:chirp_devel-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com"><chirp_devel-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com></a> On Behalf Of Dan Smith via<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>chirp_devel<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2021 2:39 PM<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>To: chirp-devel <a href="mailto:chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com"><chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com></a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Subject: Re: [chirp_devel] Python 3 status<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>The world has moved to Git.<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>OMG, really? I totally missed this memo. I guess we *have* to move. We<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>should probably all run Windows too, right? Yay monoculture! :)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>(On a personal note, I was quite interested in working on the py3 branch<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><pre>until I discovered all of the compatibility cruft, at which point I lost<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>interest entirely.)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>So why are you here? Just heckling and hoping that someone else will get the<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>project to the point where you're willing to contribute? This is my general<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>hesitancy to move stuff just because someone shows up and says "If only this<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>project used tool X, then I'd contribute." The opinions of people who have<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>actually contributed meaningfully weigh much more on me than those that<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>haven't.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Moving to a new language and toolchain requires people that *have*<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>contributed a lot to change, it requires me to change my build environment,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>and other knock-on impacts. Obviously I want it to just magically be<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>current, but that involves a lot of work on my part, and even though might<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>be great if it meant more contributors, it's still work.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>As I said I would, just created this:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://github.com/kk7ds/chirp">https://github.com/kk7ds/chirp</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>...and I will endeavor to sync back and forth between there and the<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>mercurial repo so that people can, for the moment, submit to either. If/when<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>the github side becomes the obvious default (clearly it will over time) and<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>we can get the current major contributors happy with it, then I can work on<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>making the build infrastructure pull from git and then stop the mercurial<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>synchronization.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>One of the primary reasons to tolerate github, IMHO, is travis, but<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>unfortunately travis has seemingly abandoned the OSS people that used it<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>before. In just working to get the tests running in travis I burned a<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>substantial number of my own credits just getting it going, so at this<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>point, I don't think it's really an option, unfortunately. I hope that<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>changes.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>For those that have set up unofficial git repos, it would probably benefit<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>the world if you could either mark those as deprecated, remove them, or at<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>least point at the above repo in a comment or something.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Joe, I assume you'd rather propose your patches (which I haven't looked at<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>yet) against the github repo. If not, let me know.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>--Dan<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>chirp_devel mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_devel">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_devel</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Developer docs: <a href="http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Developers">http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Developers</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>chirp_devel mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_devel">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_devel</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Developer docs: <a href="http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Developers">http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Developers</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>