[Symbian-hacks] Re: Yet Another Bluetooth GPS Program

[Nick Burch]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> I'll probably take a look at the code and see if there's anything I can
> do to help you out with the code

Cheers. It's currently only source controlled on my machine, with periodic 
pushes to my website. If there's enough interest in helping, I can sling 
the code into svn somewhere

> and you can feel free to join the Symbian-Hacks mailing list I've sent 
> this message to and CC'd you on.

Have done :)

> Unfortunately, the experience of releasing this has made me rather 
> despondant on further development on the mobile platform: anything I do 
> seems to be ignored, or redone, and better, by someone else. The effort 
> I put forth for releases is too much to just have wasted - GPSDisplay[2] 
> was only downloaded by a total of 3 people,

I only wrote my one because the paid-for software I was trying to use 
(GETrack) wasn't working. Despite several helpful emails over the weekend 
from the author, I still didn't have anything working on Sunday afternoon. 
Since he wouldn't give me the code, I couldn't add the debugging I thought 
might help identify the problem.

I've already written a simple NMEA parser in perl, so I knew that the NMEA 
stuff was going to be easy. I found a couple of sample python programs, 
had a few hours spare, so I started hacking

Personally, I'd much rather spend a few hours of my own time writing 
software and have it used widely, rather than used narrowly and get some 
money. That might well be because I have a nicely paying day job though!

Nick