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README: Bump libsigrok requirement to 0.4.0.
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5The sigrok project aims at creating a portable, cross-platform,
6Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite that supports various
7device types (such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and more).
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9sigrok-meter is a special-purpose GUI for libsigrok (written in Python + Qt)
10which supports certain classes of test & measurement devices that usually
11provide slowly-updating measurement values, such as multimeters or dataloggers.
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13It does specifically NOT support logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and
14mixed-signal oscilloscopes (MSOs).
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17Status
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20There have been no official tarball releases, yet.
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22Distro packagers should NOT package this, yet.
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25Requirements
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28 - git
d71cb142 29 - Python (2 or 3)
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d71cb142 31 (both need at least the QtCore and QtGui components)
f14e08ec 32 - PyQtGraph
7d640512 33 - libsigrok >= 0.4.0 (including the Python bindings)
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36Building and installing
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39In order to get the sigrok-meter source code and build it, run:
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41 $ git clone git://sigrok.org/sigrok-meter
42 $ cd sigrok-meter
43 $ ./sigrok-meter
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45For installing sigrok-meter:
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47 TODO.
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49See INSTALL or the following wiki page for more (OS-specific) instructions:
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51 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Building
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54Copyright and license
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57sigrok-meter is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
58(GPL), version 3 or later.
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60While some individual source code files are licensed under the GPLv2+, and
61some files are licensed under the GPLv3+, this doesn't change the fact that
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62the program as a whole is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3+ (e.g. also
63due to the fact that it links against GPLv3+ libraries).
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65Please see the individual source files for the full list of copyright holders.
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68Mailing list
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71 https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
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74IRC
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77You can find the sigrok developers in the #sigrok IRC channel on Freenode.
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80Website
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83 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Sigrok-meter
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