[Symbian-hacks] Socket Programming sucks ass

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On 17/1/2006, "Christopher Schmidt" <crschmidt at crschmidt.net> wrote:

>"Put your GPS on the internet" doesn't mean much when your phone can't
>be accessed from outside the local network. Even if someone *were* to
>port gpsd, it wouldn't help anything, because I can't access any ports
>on my cell phone.

Yeah it's a stupid tagline -- why the hell would anyone want to put a
GPS on the Internet?  Hey, some GPS over the other side of the world
is... over the other side of the world.  Fancy that?

For my mind, gpsd solves two major problems:
* Reinventing solutions to small and large incompatibilities between
different GPS devices
* Concurrent access to the GPS's data stream

>Someone may, at some point, port gpsd. However, given the difficulty
>I've had using the application even locally (it dies regularly for no
>apparent reason on my powerbook), I have no faith that it is a best path
>for anyone to talk for talking to a GPS on a phone.

Weird.  It's always worked fine for me under Linux on x86 and ARM.

>Add to this the fact that Nokia is already working on APIs to access GPS
>devices in their next gen phones, I think it would probably end up being
>a wasted effort.

Ahhh.  That would be nice!

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