Bug#877030: ITP: pat -- Winlink client with basic messaging capabilities
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@debian.org>
* Package name : pat
Version : 0.3.0
Upstream Author : Martin Hebnes Pedersen <martin.h.pedersen@gmail.com>
* URL : http://getpat.io/
* License : MIT (Expat)
Programming Lang: Go
Description : Winlink client with basic messaging capabilities
Pat is a cross platform Winlink client with basic messaging
capabilities.
It is the primary sandbox/prototype application for the wl2k-go
project, and provides both a command line interface and a responsive
(mobile-friendly) web interface.
It is mainly developed for Linux, but are also known to run on OS X,
Windows and Android.
Features
* Message composer/reader (basic mailbox functionality).
* Auto-shrink image attachments.
* Post position reports with location from local GPS, browser
location or manual entry.
* Rig control (using hamlib) for winmor PTT and QSY.
* CRON-like syntax for execution of scheduled commands (e.g. QSY or
connect).
* Built in http-server with web interface (mobile friendly).
* Git style command line interface.
* Listen for P2P connections using multiple modes concurrently.
* AX.25, telnet, WINMOR and ARDOP support.
* Experimental gzip message compression
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I have used pat and it works pretty well. It's the first time I'm
able to use WinLink in a meaningful way in Linux. I remember trying
the Windows binary in Wine a while back and it was really painful. Now
there's a nice interface, both web GUI and commandline. I have yet to
test AX-25, but i'm hopeful to get good results.
There are a lot of vendored dependencies present in the source,
however:
github.com/bndr/gotabulate
github.com/elazarl/go-bindata-assetfs
github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify
github.com/gorhill/cronexpr
github.com/gorilla/context
github.com/gorilla/mux
github.com/gorilla/websocket
github.com/howeyc/gopass
github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata
github.com/la5nta/wl2k-go
github.com/mattn/go-runewidth
github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday
github.com/nfnt/resize
github.com/peterh/liner
github.com/spf13/pflag
golang.org/x/crypto
golang.org/x/net
golang.org/x/sys
golang.org/x/text
I'm unsure which one are already in debian and which ones are not.
Of the above, only the following are missing from Debian, which is
pretty awesome:
github.com/bndr/gotabulate
github.com/la5nta/wl2k-go
and the latter is basically the library backend for pat.
I would be happy to comaintain this or delegate maintainership: just
scratching an itch here. I would also love to get help from the golang
packages as I have never packaged golang stuff before.
An equivalent free software of this is "paclink-unix", but it's
apparently less user-friendly. A comparative of different winlink
clients is available here:
https://www.winlink.org/ClientSoftware
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