WinPilot PRO Questions

On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 9:06:49 PM UTC, Ramy wrote:

I finally decided it was time to make the leap and upgraded my iPaq to a Dell Streak 5 and the software to XCSoar. It was well worth it. The cost is only $200-$300 for the hardware (software is free) although the most significant investment is time to read the manual, learn how to use it, understand it's quirks (like any other software) and configure it correctly to your liking (crucial).


Just to avoid any possibility of confusion: XCSoar still supports Windows CE devices (including Pocket PCs such as iPAQs, navigators such as Mios etc), and the Windows CE releases of XCSoar are updated at the same time as the releases for other platforms, including Android. So there's no requirement to upgrade your current hardware to use XCSoar, and there are no plans for XCSoar to retire Windows CE support.

Between 2009 - 2011 XCSoar was extensively rewritten for version 6.0 - mainly by Max Kellermann and Tobias Bieniek - with portability between platforms in mind. Because of this, all releases of XCSoar are now compiled from the same set of code (codebase). Maintaining two dissimilar codebases is more time consuming than maintaining one codebase, which is why vendors dealing with that situation may have to make tough decisions about continuing support for the Windows CE versions of their programs.