FWIW,
When we started a recent project, (not so recent anymore), we needed
to use Irish Mapping information. With much help from Tom and Gerry,
I was able to convert them into something xastir could use. However,
the results were pretty poor, so we (Kristian) ended up doing a GUI
from scratch in C++. It builds and runs quite happily on Linux and
OSX (We didn't try Leopard actually).
I remember at the time having a discussion with him at the time, what
would, in his opinion, be a good way to take an xastir2
implementation (His knowledge wouldn't go as far as the GIS
databases, but he did wrestle with co-ordinate conversion and
storage), I'll pose it to him again.
Like others have said, I think its the non ANSI STL libraries will
bite you.
Also, when I made an attempt to add IPv6 support to xastir, I was
only able to get so far, as I would have had to change some internal
structures that I wasn't comfortable with changing in order to get
the final bit working. As it was I did a quick hack to bypass that
code, and had a 'proof' of concept in operation. Id be happy to try
again with that. Also I'll find out what parts of our project would
be suitable for re-use if any.
Regards
de John
EI7IG
On 15 Jun 2008, at 03:53, Curt, WE7U wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote:
So it looks like we've got two votes for C/C++ so far. OO would
make things a lot cleaner, so so far C++ is the winner.
I don't have a lot of experience with C++, but it's close enough to
C that I've been able to do some C++ hacking here and there. I
wouldn't object to going with C++.
Regarding C++, I seem to remember something about problems with
certain libraries from system to system, but those libraries are
things the true-blue C++ guys tend to use a lot of. STL maybe? Is
this something we can avoid entirely in order to run on more
platforms or will it be a continual problem? What about other C++
libraries, are they fairly compatible across platforms?
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