On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:29:35AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > good morning all, > > Qt is becoming quite popular around here as a software engineering > tool. One of the profs saw xastir up on my old laptop and asked a few > questions, and pretty soon we were discussing a port of xastir to Qt > as a 2 semester software engineering course project. It's got UI, > hardware interfacing, database stuff, GIS, existing code to > decipher/reverse engineer, etc; lots of goodies from an instructional > viewpoint.
I am becoming fond of Qt. In fact, for the last week I've been using it to develop a little tool I've talked about for years but never done --- a gadget to accept DF bearing reports, compute fixes, and send objects to a running Xastir instance through the server port. It's pretty much my first real GUI project, and Qt's tools are pretty nice. I think that Qt would be a fine thing to use for a cross-platform APRS program. One might also consider using QGIS as a library for map rendering (it's also based on Qt). > I have no idea if this will actually fly, but I was wondering how the > xastir community, especially the developers, felt about the idea. > Of course, since much of the code is GPLed it could be considered a > fork. No big deal. Yeah, no big deal for it being a fork, really. I wouldn't call it "Xastir2" though, because if you're just grabbing big chunks of existing code and wrapping a new GUI around it, it's more "Qastir" than a new redesign. The guts of Xastir need some serious refactor, which is what I had hoped the Xastir 2 development would have been had it ever gotten out of the talking stage --- it's been brought up, discussed, and re-vaporized every year or two since I first downloaded Xastir in 2002 (or was it 2001?). -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM In some cultures what I do would be considered normal. -- Ineffective daily affirmation _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev
