From: Nate Bargmann (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 04:55:52 EET
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:07:12PM +0000, Iain Young wrote:
>
> Just a suggestion, If I recall correctly, predict can supply the
> tracking information to a tcp port.
>
> You might want to consider just writing the text interface (and
> any others that take your fancy) to read from a Predict TCP server,
> Or even do something similar (disclaimer: I cant remember the
> exact licensing conditions of Predict)
There was a demonstration program written in XForms that takes advantage
of Predict's TCP server capability. Unfortunately, it's written in
XForms, which, if I recall, is still non-free in Debian. A better
option would be to port that app to GTK or Qt (impossible, perhaps?) or
write a replacement using a Free toolkit.
Advantages to this is that Predict is licensed GPL V 2.0, it's fast and
reasonably stable, and it's already in Debian. I just looked at the
Predict package description in dselect and find it includes:
gsat graphical front-end for predicut using gtk
So far I haven't installed the latest Debian version (2.1.3-1 in
testing) to see what just what gsat will do, but maybe this is a
starting point for a project.
> (Even if it is ran on the same machine, you should still be able
> to connect via the localhost inteface)
>
> This would massively simplfy any code written, and allow us real
> nutters to run the tracking engine on one machine, while running
> one or more clients on another.
Of course!
73, de Nate >>
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