Re: TODO / Design Document - For dicussion

[Gerry Creager N5JXS <gerry cs tamu edu>]

Color me interested... The future development plans make sense to me.

gerry
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mike_phillips urscorp com wrote:
> 
> After reading the design document in the source fully, there are a lot of
> good idea in the document.
> 
> For future development perhaps we should compile a list of features to be
> added.
> 
> I thought of the following:
> 
> Main Functionality -
>         Extending the current code with a gui.
>         Producing kneeboard format output
>         Adding support for DAFIF files.
>         Other stuff covering in general todo section.
> 
> New Functionality -
>         In flight capabilities (on linux based pda's and/or otherwise)
>         Airport directory, facilities information
>         Weather downloads
>         E6B functions
>         DUATS (maybe ;)
> 
> It would be nice to set the code up to be modular in nature, allowing new
> modules to be added without a major rewrite of the underlying code. This
> will also allow us to keep a cli if desired.
> 
> I would even go so far as to suggest a modular database system as well
> allowing people to use whichever database they want. Default would be the
> existing setup with modules for other db's (Berkeley DB, MySQL,
> PostgresSQL, etc.) I've already hacked together some routines to convert
> the DAFIF airport files into a Postgressql table.
> 
> This is John's project, so ultimately his decision as well, but if we can
> agree on a framework for modularizing the code each of us can work on a
> different part without stepping on each other's toes.
> 
> Personaly, my area of expertise is in low level coding, network stuff and
> databases.
> 
> Mike
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