[Xastir] station database?

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Orrin Winton wrote:

> Xastir doesn't at present create & add to a station
> database of traffic heard, does it?  That would be a
> really neat feature.  A mysql database perhaps.
> (I'm learning php & mysql so i mention mysql.)  I
> mean, a 'permanent' database that doesn't go away
> when you shut down the program.

Yea, we're going to head that way, but look at postgreSQL instead of
mysql.  Spatially-enabled features.


> What prompts this is looking at www.findu.com and
> feeling disappointed that k4hg (Steve Dimse) seems to
> liken Open Source software to something socialistic.
> His language suggests that.  I always thought of Linux
> being a product of a "rational anarchy" kind of
> philosophy, not socialism.
>
> His point being that he won't release the source code
> to all his good work.  Oh well.

You've got the wrong idea about Steve.  He openly uses open-source
tools.  He's not releasing the code to findu for other reasons.


> What part of the Xastir C code does the parsing of
> incoming packets?  Just curious.

db.c

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