Re: userland soundmodem dependencies
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:17:38AM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 18:01:42 -0700
> Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net> wrote:
>
> > I just did and it compiled correctly. Funny, but I would have thought
> > the libxml2-dev should work.
> >
>
> No, libxml-dev always supplies the latest xml library. This will
> assure that developers build their package with the latest release
> of libxml. When libxml-dev actually contains libxml2, this will assure
> that libxml1 will be phased out and we don't get stuck with lots
> of versions of (outdated) libraries.
>
> > Actually I don't see why Gnome or Gtk should be needed for an
> > application like this.
> >
>
> There must be some kind of GUI.
Why?
Well, it does have a Gtk configuration tool, but that could as
easily be done with ncurses (or with some more documentation, a text
editor).
>
> > I suppose if I searched really hard I could find a source
> > package with less documentation than this one!
> >
> >
>
> Have you checked Thomas' website?
Yes (http://www.baycom.org/~tom/ham/soundmodem), but it doesn't say much.
I don't mean to knock what Thomas has done, but it does appear to be
somewhat incomplete (o.k., the version number IS < 1.0, which explains
a lot.)
Bob N7XY
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