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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2a93ffd --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +# chirp-gentoo +A custom repository for CHIRP, a tool for configuring HAM radios. + +## What's Different? +The official CHIRP project does not support Python 3 and depends on pygtk which hasn't seen a stable release since April 2011. + +chirp-gentoo is a fork of the py3 branch of the official CHIRP project with some syntax fixes leftover from Python2. + +## The Story + +When I first started using Gentoo again CHIRP was still a part of the main Gentoo Portage Repository. + +Eventually Gentoo began migrating away from Python2 and due to a lack of movement in the official project it was removed from the official Gentoo repository. + +I still needed to configure my radios and maintain an up to date Gentoo desktop so I cloned the py3 branch from the official CHIRP project and fixed a few syntax errors leftover from Python2 and everything worked great. + +I was able to download an image from my BF-F8HP, fully reconfigure it and upload the new image back to my radio. + + +### Repo Source (Forked From) + + - Mercurial Repository: http://d-rats.com/hg/chirp.hg + - Revision: py3 + - Number: 3351:68534f20c141 + +### Bugs and Patches Submitted to Official Project + + - https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/8475 - Fixed old Python2 Syntax + +### Related Bugs in Gentoo + + - https://bugs.gentoo.org/708304 - Removed CHIRP from Portage + |