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<li><a href="https://git-scm.com/">git</a> - distributed version control system - already installed on Linux probably</li>
<li><a href="fzconfig.html">Filezilla</a> - ftp GUI software with a configuration file to get to the expo server</li>
<li><a href="https://survex.com/download.html">Survex</a>, including the Aven visualisation tool.
<li><a href="https://survex.com/related.html">Survex related tools</a> Carto, CaveScript (used by CaveView the 3D browser visualiser).
<li><a href="https://github.com/CaveSurveying/tunnelx">Tunnel</a>: 2.5D cave drawing program based on Survex-compatible data which can also read PocketTopo files. (Generally called 'tunnel' even though the project and executable is actually 'tunnelx'.)
<li><a href="https://therion.speleo.sk/">Therion</a> - Therion processes survey data and generates maps or 3D models of caves.
<li><a href="https://bitbucket.org/AndrewA/topparser/src/default/">TopParser</a> - to convert PocketTopo .top files from a DistoX into Therion.
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<li><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/">Viking</a> - an alternative to GPSprune. The <a href="https://github.com/viking-gps/viking">code</a> is on github.
<li>python, if you are extending troggle or the scripts in expoweb/noinfo/ - already installed on Linux <img src="https://www.python.org/favicon.ico" width=64 hspace="20" align="right">
<li>python packages you will want to install: [<em>not yet documented</em>]
<li><a href="https://github.com/patrickbwarren/qgis3-survex-import">qgis3-survex-import</a> - plugin to import/export survex .3d files</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/patrickbwarren/qgis3-survex-import">qgis3-survex-import</a> - Patrick's plugin to import/export survex .3d files</li>
<li><a href="https://vectr.com/user-guide/">Vectr svg</a> - quick and easy sketcher (browser-based, Chrome only) for making rigging topo diagrams: "free forever" committment, but not open source. Please export as svg not jpg or png.
<li><a href="https://github.com/patrickbwarren/inkscape-survex-export">inkscape-survex</a> - Patrick's plugin to export a traced inkscape line drawing to a survex file.
<li><a href="http://www.thomas-holder.de/projects/inkscape-speleo/extensions/">inkscape-speleo</a> - plugin to import/export survex, therion and pockettopo files to the drawing package inkscape.
<li><a href="https://imagemagick.org/script/">Imagemagick convert</a> for re-scaling photographs and scanned images and converting from PDF to JPG. (NB you may need to fix this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52998331/imagemagick-security-policy-pdf-blocking-conversion">security issue</a>)
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<h4>For Linux users only:</h4>
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<li><a href="https://git-scm.com/download/gui/linux">GUI for git</a> - There is a choice on Linux but many people just use the command line.
<li>Your favourite text editor. gedit is installed on the <em>expo laptop</em> and has syntax highlighting for .svx files too. This works with <a href="https://survex.com/changes.html">all GtkSourceView-based editors</a> (thanks to Phil Withnall).
<li>Your favourite text editor. gedit is installed on the <em>expo laptop</em> and has syntax highlighting for .svx files too. This works with <a href="https://survex.com/changes.html">all GtkSourceView-based editors</a> (thanks to Phil Withnall). Download a local copy of the syntax colourizer <a download href="/site_media/survex.lang">survex.lang</a>.
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<h4>For Linux and WSL (text mode only) Windows users only:</h4>
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<li><a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/">python for windows</a>. We are moving from python 2.7 to python 3.7 during June 2020.
<li><a href="https://winscp.net/eng/download.php">WinScp</a> can be used as an alternative to Filezilla if you like.
<li><a href="https://www.java.com/en/">java</a> - needed for GPSprune and CaveConverter. Has to be installed separately on a Windows machine.
<li><a href="https://notepad-plus-plus.org/">Notepad++</a> or any other syntax-highlighting code editor for HTML and python such as <a href="https://www.aptana.com/">Aptana Studio</a>. Configuring these to syntax-highlight .svx files has yet to be done.
<li><a href="https://notepad-plus-plus.org/">Notepad++</a> or any other syntax-highlighting code editor for HTML and python. We have a syntax-highlighter to colourize .svx files, download it: <a href="/site_media/survex.xml">survex.xml</a>.
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<h4>Visual Studio Code editor</h4>

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<p>There is not yet a front-end (javascript) framework on the client, i.e. a phone app or webpage, which is stable enough for us to commit effort to. Bits of troggle use very old jQuery ("edit this page", and the svx file editor) , and Flask looks interesting, but maybe in 2025 we could see a good way to move all the user interface to the client and just have an API on the server.
<h3>API</h3>
<p>We will also need an API now-ish, whatever we do, so that keen kids can write their own special-purpose front-ends using new cool toys. Which will keep them out of our hair. We can do this easily with Django templates that generate JSON, which is <a href="">what CUYC do</a>
<p>We will also need an API now-ish, whatever we do, so that keen kids can write their own special-purpose front-ends using new cool toys. Which will keep them out of our hair. We can do this easily with Django templates that generate JSON, which is <a href="https://www.cuyc.org.uk/committee/events_json_short/">what CUYC do</a>
<h3>Postscript</h3>
<p>Andy Waddington, who wrote the first expo website in 1996, mentioned that he could never get the hang of Django at all, and working with SQL databases would require some serious book-revision: