laura halliday wrote:
Gordon wrote about WiSP and some other programs:
Yes, but they're Windows-only, and there is no source code available. I don't want to have to buy a very expensive piece of software (which is closed-source, and therefore insecure and unmaintainable) to run another piece of closed-source software.
If you see a need, start writing. This software doesn't appear magically, out of nowhere. Somebody has to write it. Why can't that somebody be you
Is pbpg still being developed? wasn't that open source? This might be a good start, if not. I always thought the pacsat protocol was a very interesting concept and is a piece of technology that deserves to live on. Maybe even has uses for distributing content via low bandwidth channels on other ham bands. It'd be nice, maybe to have a raw library that just did the pacsat protocol alone, without all the other stuff, as a basis for building other apps. With a single common cross-platform library as the basis for pacsat protocol programs, that would allow us to more easily improve the system, by updating the library, and then everyone's application is upgraded. (This of course, would take some time to build, which unfortunately, I have none of -- baah, for real life interfering with such plans.)
With libraries for the 'weird stuff' then, I think more user apps would pop up. Hamlib, I believe is a good example,and is still maintained, as far as I know.