[Kstars-devel] Get Hot New Stuff

[Chris Curran]

Jasem,

As you'll recall, that's what I'm working on. Are you taking it?

cheers,
Chris

Jasem Mutlaq wrote:

>Hello,
>
>In addition to the current work on Apogee, I'm planning to add support for 
>SBIG next. SBIG kindly provides kernel drivers, along with their camera 
>libraries. The source code is proprietary, so only the binary library is 
>available. 
>
>Currently, it takes somewhat an experienced user to have the camera ready to 
>roll. Our goal in KStars has always been to make things as easy and simple as 
>possible for the end user, and SBIG should not be an exception. Since we 
>can't really include any proprietary or binary files for that matter in the 
>CVS (or SVN!) the next solution would be to utilize Get Hot New Stuff tool.
>
>Even though I don't think there are "legal" issues with allowing the user to 
>download proprietary stuff using this tool, I just wanted to make sure before 
>I start working. 
>
>And no, there is no other way, we have to use the proprietary library.
>
>Cheers,
>Jasem
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