[Ham-Mac] APRS for Mac OSX

[N1OFZ]

The biggest issue with a prebuilt app is that Xastir runs under the X11 
environment.  I could make an installer but I would have to assume that 
the user does not have X11 nor the developer tools installed.  The 
installer would end up being something like 800+ MB compressed.  At my 
house, I have 4 OSX boxes here with Xastir.  When I want to do an 
update I just run the cvs update on one machine.  When it is done I 
have an Apple Script that tars up the /sw directory and installs it on 
the other machines.  This would work as an installer on other people 
machines but the problem is the file is 1.3GB.  Either way we are 
talking about a huge file.

As stated below it is really easy to build Xastir the hard part is 
making sure you have all the correct packages installed under X11 
before trying to build it.  Matters could be simplified by creating a 
script that automatically instructs Fink to install everything 
necessary.  Next time I do a build from scratch I'll give it a try.  
Anyone else interested in getting involved?  Respond to me off the list 
and we can work out the details.

Dana
N1OFZ



>> Too bad it's a source dist, I imagine that will scare away most of 
>> the people that don't know how to use the terminal or don't have 
>> previous unix experience. Looks like a good program, but it took me a 
>> moment to figure out why it wasn't seeing any maps(read the readmes! 
>> doh). There is also X-APRS for Linux, almost identical to 
>> MacAPRS/WinAPRS, although it will almost certainly need some work 
>> before being compiled for MacOS X.
>
> Compiling Xastir is a piece of cake. There are a couple of step by 
> step web pages out there. I wouldn't hold my breath for X-APRS. I 
> don't think there has been an update in 4 or 5 years. Xastir gets 
> updated almost daily. It is the future of reliable APRS software.