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

[Christopher Schmidt]

Somehow I deleted this one from the moderation queue instead of
approving it, so I'm forwarding it to the list.

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From: Nick Burch <nick at gagravarr.org>
To: Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at crschmidt.net>
Cc: symbian-hacks at crschmidt.net
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:53:25 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: Yet Another Bluetooth GPS Program

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

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Christopher Schmidt
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