From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Braddock Gaskill Subject: Re: APRS library? Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:18:55 -0600 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040311001855.GA20040@braddock.com> References: <20040310023947.GA14019@braddock.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Curt, WE7U" Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:04:18AM -0800, Curt, WE7U wrote: > Curt. One of the Xastir guys. After doing a bit more digging and asking around, it seems like your Xastir (107k lines of code), and Ian Wades perl parser (~55 pages of code), are the ONLY open source APRS parser implementations, and that creating a fresh one will be a massive job. It's a shame to see so much good non-commercial software is close-sourced in the HAM community. Do you have any recommendations on perhaps a good place to hook into Xastir to get the APRS data in a parsed standardized format? I was thinking I could pretty easilly externalize the DataRow structure via a documented TCP port interface so that people could realistically write new APRS clients. I could write a little client library to remotely retrieve parts of the DataRow structure via TCP, and allows the application programmer to register "data update" callbacks when an entry is changed. Any suggestions would be welcome. I'm hoping to do this in the next two days before a local HAM weather balloon launch. -braddock