[hpsdr] VS2010 vs VS2012, also please avoid 'Surface' tablets

[Berndt Josef Wulf]

G'day George,

many thanks for the information. Yes, I too was wondering why VS2012
wasn't the choice for this project. 

Personally, I would prefer seeing more support for cross platform
development. ghpsdr and cuSDR are shining examples. I've both running on
Ubuntu 12.04LTS

I've built ghpsdr and ghpsdr3 on Raspberry Pi (pisces 3.2.27), which
uses an ARM processor. Both fftw3f and libusb1.0 built fine.

cheerio Berndt

On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 12:33 -0400, George Byrkit wrote:
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> So here's why we aren't planning to move to VS2012 any time soon:
> 1) VS2010 runs on WinXP.  VS2012 will NOT run on WinXP
> 2) VS2012 is only now about to receive support to be able to create C++ apps that will run
> on XP.  This is currently an item that is in early testing.
> 
> So, please continue to use VS2010, and do NOT use VS2012.
> 
> Also, you would be well advised to avoid any 'Microsoft Surface' tablets, as not suitable
> for use with PowerSDR, KISS or other general windows software.  Why?  Because apparently
> the initial 'surface' units to be released will NOT be 'x86' or 'x64' units, but will use
> the ARM processor.  I do not know of a port of FFTW to ARM yet, and without that, any use
> of PowerSDR or KISS would be extremely premature.  Also, the version of libusb0 that is
> used with Ozy does NOT have an ARM port, either.
> 
> The other issue is that no one is working to create an application that will be downloaded
> from the Microsoft store, which is the ONLY way to acquire apps to use on a 'surface'
> tablet.  Sometimes new technology is REALLY on (or past) the 'bleeding edge' and should be
> avoided for good reason...  I have no plans to port KISS to Surface devices...
> 
> 73,
> George K9TRV
> 
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