On Wed 22 Oct 2003, David Cantrell david@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
So, I propose that I write a Palm application which encapsulates the more important bits of Openguides functionality and which can be fed a database, updated at regular intervals.
Just to add my voice to this - I think it's a fantastic idea. I tried to use Plucker to scoop the London OpenGuide onto my Palm many months ago, but well um it was a bit too big when it tried to follow all the links. A custom version would be brilliant.
Do we have any experienced Palm and/or C developers here?
My Palmness and Cness are both very rusty. I have done a very small amount of Palm development, and substantially more C, but both were ages ago. I will certainly do my best to contribute to this project.
Such a project would require that the main Openguides project can supply data, with a nice stable structure.
This won't be a problem. All the data is in a database on which I've done some pretty screwy queries and always been able to get out what I wanted. Yes, I am a SQL-loving freak, but I'm an SQL-loving freak that will make your database extracts for you.
It also requires that Openguides people decide what functionality is important for such a tool and what isn't.
"Show me things of type [foo] near where I am" is a must. There's no point in having it portable otherwise.
Things we can do without include full-text searching, showing wanted pages, editing pages, showing pictures.
Probably.
Kake