On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:02 PM, C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP
<cjac@colliertech.org> wrote:
depends on fpc. written in pascal, eh? That was my first ever
language. I even did some libsvga stuff with it. Interacted with the
mouse using assembler and raising interrupts. Good times. Good times.
I am building now. I will see if I can build a debian/ directory.
On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 14:08 -0800, Kiavash F wrote:
> Hi Dear Debian ham team,
>
> I have recently noticed that PUFF 2.1 CAD Microwave Software has been
> GPL'd as of 2010. I was introduced to this useful small program, back
> in undergrad. At that time, It was only available on DOS and microwave
> tools were sparse and "GUI based OS's" weren't that popular. For many
> years I used DOSBOX to continue using PUFF for my HAM designs and
> calculations.
>
> Now back in 2013, this tool is opened sourced and ported to Linux
> (http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~ptdeboer/ham/puff/). I followed the
> readme file and successfully built the executables under Ubuntu (I
> know it is not Debian!), thinking this tool is missing in the wider
> world of Linux users (there is no good open sourced industrial grade
> Microwave cad tool that I am aware of). Having said that, it would be
> great if PUFF can be added to Debian ham programs, but.... My
> knowledge of programing and packing and ... is very very limited and I
> wish I could picked up the task by myself. That is where your help
> comes in. Would you mind to take a look at PUFF and think about
> packaging it for (at least) x86/64 Debian releases?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kiavash