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[Paul Schulz <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nate and the group..

I also have an 'on-going' hacking project on a contest logger.
- Based on 'xlog' (Ubuntu package)
- My changes are in a git repository here:
    http://git.mawsonlakes.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=paul/xlog
- Written in c.

I attempting to convert the GUI GTK to libglade to make it more
customisable at runtime, and suitable for other radio logging other
than just contests... (eg nets, message passing) and I am treating it
as a personal learning project.

There are some common things that would help both projects..

- standardised log format (eg. use SQLlite, or a tagged LDAP type format)
- well defined data entry 'flow'.
- standard 'hot/shortcut keys'

xlog currently uses a fixed testfile format. You can add fields, but
removing fields will delete historical data.

I was also blogging about my progress.. before that came to a grinding halt.
http://mawsonlakesorg.blogspot.com/2010/03/part-3a-xlog-preparing-to-hack.html

Cheers and 73's
Paul - VK5FPAW



On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Nate Bargmann <n0nb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> Okay, here goes.  Last night during the net with Steve and Kamal as the
> band was folding I tried to tell them about a contest logger I had done
> some hacking on late last year and early this year.  So far it only
> exists in a local Git repository on my hard drive and has not seen the
> light of day.  After thinking about it overnight I have decided to
> invite the Ubuntu Hams list to the discussion.
>
> This program is originally based on YFKtest by Fabian, DJ1YFK:
>
> http://fkurz.net/ham/yfktest.html
>
> It is written in Perl and uses the Curses module for its UI.  At the
> moment, the only other module used is IO::Socket::INET (for rigctld and
> cwdaemon) so it is quite generic and may run on older Perl versions even
> though I have been working with it in Perl 5.10.x on Debian Sid.
>
> I started with the SVN checkout of YFKtest as of 30 October 2009 and
> imported it into my Git repository so all of the prior change record is
> intact that I could get from SVN.  My changes are minor, mostly reworking
> the Curses UI more to my liking although the experimental branch holds work
> for converting to the new Extended Response Protocol of rigctld in
> Hamlib 1.2.11.  Also, since many of the pending changes have reworked
> much of Fabian's and his contributors' code, I chose to rename it CTest
> which pays homage to its intended familiar look of CT and its ancestor,
> YFKtest.
>
> Why am I stating all of this?  Because, the project will go nowhere with
> just me doing it!  ;-)  Here is what I am thinking of doing.
>
> 1. Import the Git repo into Bazaar.
> 2. Setup my Launchpad account to host the CTest project.
> 3. Let Ubuntu Hams at it as a team project.
> 4. Hack away!
> 5. ?????
> 6. Profit!  (how'd that Slashdot meme sneak in here?)
>
> Some things to consider before I start, is this worthwhile?  Is Perl a
> proper language to do this in (besides the fact that I feel quite
> comfortable in Perl, is it really the way forward for something that
> will become complex, multi-threaded, etc.?)?  Besides YFKtest, does this
> duplicate any effort currently in *active* development that I am unaware
> of?
>
> There will likely be plenty of questions to be answered, but if the team
> is willing, I'll get my part done as quickly as I can.  At this point it
> is somewhat usable, but not my experimental branch ATM (but that's all
> the fun, right?).
>
> Please, let me know if this is wanted by the Ubuntu Hams team!  Maybe we
> could hack up something usable by Field Day.  ;-)
>
> 73, de Nate >>
>
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>
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>
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