[Symbian-hacks] Socket Programming sucks ass

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:48:47PM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> For my mind, gpsd solves two major problems:
> * Reinventing solutions to small and large incompatibilities between
> different GPS devices

I agree that this is a good thing, but it's possible to solve this
problem without reimplementing gpsd. What needs to/could be done would
be to create a good GPS lib that could take an arbitrary sentence, and
return a data structure, no matter how goofy said sentence is or
whatever. This doesn't require an implementation of gpsd, though, just a
good library for dealing with NMEA and all its variety.

> * Concurrent access to the GPS's data stream

Given the processing capabilities of the phones as they stand, I think
this is less of an issue. I can only see one thing at once, and the apps
that are possible are small enough that one app could combine them all.

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Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer