On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 17:37 +0100, Tobias Bieniek wrote: > Well... unfortunatly though it might be called "open source" the > source code of LK8000 version 1.23b is not available anywhere... The > latest source code on the LK8000 page is of 1.22b and since the LK8000 > project doesn't use any source code control system at all it is not > possible to download it from anywhere else. > I'd wondered if Paolo used source control. I'm a little surprised that he doesn't because I can't imagine doing any serious development without CVS. Yeah, I'm a dinosaur and have not made the jump to svn or git, partly because I sometimes find it useful to be able to hack into the repository and control files if I'm renaming or moving files.
Anyway, that probably explains the way he sits on source files - without source control its quite hard to get a clean set of files during active development. > If you have the source code feel free to send it to us, but without > the code it is kinda hard to look at the code ;) > I don't have any LK8000 source, but then I haven't needed it either. In any case the code we're talking about is also in the 1.22b source - I just checked. > Have you taken a look at the WELT2000 database?! Might be what you are > looking for... > Yes, its interesting, but unusable here because its UK turnpoints don't have the BGA trigraphs and hence no commonality with the BGA League scoring system. The BGA turnpoint system already does all we need: its in a program-independent form and has a program, TPSelect, that extracts subsets of the list, converting them into a form that navigation systems and NOTAMplot, a graphical NOTAM display system, can use. What we need in the UK is a system for holding details of all airfields and landable places that don't have an associated turnpoint because there is currently no complete and accessible list. I had a look at its airfields list, but sadly that only carries a frequency (wrong in at least one case), seems to have them all labelled as turnpoints (they're not) and contains airfields you'd never be allowed to land on (Boscombe Down). On a personal note, I see that its all Windows code. I'm a Linux user and really don't need more Wine apps even assuming they'd run: for portability reasons, anything like this should really be written in Java, Python or Perl. I'd favour Java because the Sun/Oracle distribution includes Derby, a relational database that's written in Java. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester recently released a report on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Google Apps. They found a 300% ROI, 38%-56% cost savings, and break-even within 7 months. Over 3 million businesses have gone Google with Google Apps: an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your browser. Read the Forrester report: http://p.sf.net/sfu/googleapps-sfnew _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
