[Xastir-dev] Topic: Functional Requirements, Xastir-NG

[Magne Mæhre]

I've been reading the recent xastir-ng threads with some interest, and
while the programming language, programming paradigms and supported
platforms are interesting questions, I guess the functional
(and non-functional) requirements should be determined first !?

What are we trying to accomplish,  why isn't Xastir good enough?
Are we looking out for handling more and different protocols
(AIS, Mode-S ES, ...) ?   Do we want to support an instance without
a GUI (for serving objects, alerts, message handling) ?  Do we
want to support small devices (how small?  PDAs, phones, AVR, PIC) ?
Do we want to have possibility for different GUIs, or is a single
GUI like the current good enough?   What are the operations we would
like to perform in the GUI (as users) ?


I haven't really been more involved with xastir other than as a user
for many years, and submitter of a very small number of patches, but I
am interested in helping here..


--Magne / LA1BFA