[Xastir] Re: The Future, How soon?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, William Baguhn wrote:

> Can I suggest that having a little tiny command line message client would
> be a very good thing indeed?
> That way, I can be running Xastir at home, and when my home computer
> recognizes that weather spotters will be needed tonight,
> I can have a batch program run the messaging system, and send a quick message
> and inform my mobile computer (and everyone else's, too).
>
> Other uses exist as well (magic gating of short email messages (some filtering
> required like Subject: 2APRS only), automated forwarding of NWS
> bulletins/alerts to APRS network, and likely a bunch of things I'll
> think of next week), but it all seems to hinge on not having to sit down at
> a console and ten-finger interface the message from one system to another.

Understand.  I think once we get started down that treacherous path
of writing a client/server version of Xastir, people will pop out of
the woodwork with all kinds of clients, implementing features
nobody's thought of yet.

We have to get started down that path first though.  Adding little
bits and pieces onto what we have now isn't real progress, and is
just slowing down the inevitable (going server/client).


> (I'm not quite bright enough to understand how to write this myself,
> utilizing the existing aprsd as a base, and the APRS spec.  The
> APRS spec is somewhat... obtuse.)

Go read the OpenTrac spec and do a quick comparison.  Won't take you
long to read that spec.  http://www.opentrac.org

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