[Gpsbabel-misc] Re: [SPAM] Mac help, format proliferation. was: [Gpsbabel-misc] GPS 60CS proble

[Jason S. <rai...@ta...>]

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Eric Eslinger wrote:

>> To me, it makes more sense to make a frontend that execve's gpsbabel with 
>> the right command line arguments.
>
> Functionally the same thing, I guess.  My RealBasic aversion is because of 
> the size of the runtime and such.  I think I'm just AppleScript prejudiced. 
> If there's already a working frontend that someone else builds in the 
> meantime, I won't reduplicate their work, since that would be a waste of 
> energy on both ends.  Instead, I'll do something else.

But it's *NOT* the same thing.  One way you can drop in a new binary to 
fix any bugs, the other you have to wait for a rebuild...

I've not done a ton of GUI programming, but would like to play with glade. 
Is this too heavy duty to make a GTK frontend?

Jason

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