Thank you Stu for your encouraging words! Please let us know if there is anything we can to help support WeatherCat. I fear the lurking demons that forced your hand is an increasing caustic legal climate. However, if for example you could allow WeatherCat to be "donation-ware," I'm sure many of us would be happy to contribute to your continued development and perhaps offset the cost of new weather station "toys" . . . ![[biggrin]](https://athena.trixology.com/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif "Big Grin")
Edouard
You raise some good points Edouard, especially the caustic legal environment. But that's all doable, it just takes time and effort. This week I've been working on it in more detail along with some modernisations around here and making progress.
But by far the biggest issue was the WeatherCat 3 code set - it goes back to 2018 (and that was based on the WeatherCat 2 code-set which goes back to 2011 and even earlier) - the actual base OS for the code was 10.7. It was becoming increasingly difficult to work on/maintain and actually build a release that would run across the hardware and range of OS's supported by WeatherCat 3, never mind adding new features. It had become basically unmaintainable hence I couldn't effectively maintain, promote or support it and off course sales fall away in that situation. Basically it needs a re-baselining to something newer.
To that end, the first V4 dev build will be out shortly. V4 is re-baselined to Big Sur and fundamentally fixes some of the architectural issues V3 has due to the baseline OS essentially being 15 years old.
I am now seeking feedback on what people want to see in a modern Mac weather program. Nothing is off the cards, from the UI to functionality, integration and HW support (although V4 does have initial support for Ecowitt, AKA Fine Offset (specifically testing with a GW3001 and WS90 but should work with others in that same range), so no need to ask for that
).
As I mentioned above, some modernisation going on here, so new forums (these ones are again well old) -
https://wcforum.trixology.comI'd encourage all to register there and post in the feature requests forum. The development forum will go live as soon as I have V4 booting and running for more than a few hours - currently it doesn't
. The first build will be an extremely constrained release - nothing more than a does it boot/run on your machine/OS kind of test.
Along a similar line, the wiki has had a major software update, in the last few days going from version 1.19 (2012) to 1.39. 1.39 is just about current, but the plan is to update it over the next few days to the latest 1.4x release.
[Edit: The new forums are currently off-line - I'm going to try to import these forums into phpBB (looks like it's fun, but doable) but if that doesn't work, update these to the latest forum software release and then bring all back on-line once I'm happy we are OK].
Cheers,
Stu.
