[Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

[Koen Kooi]

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Paul Sokolovsky schreef:
> Hello Junqian,
> 
> Thursday, January 3, 2008, 5:30:03 AM, you wrote:
> 
>> On 12/27/2007 04:26 AM, Andrea Adami wrote:
>>> With the recent GPS-Applications galore I'd prefer to work with the latest gpsd.
> 
>> 2.35 should be buildable now from .dev. Please test.
>>> BTW we need to fix this:
>>> 3529: gpsd : missing python module curses.ascii
> 
>> Somebody more familiar with python and gpsd, please comment.
> 
>   Issues of such class - a software package comes with some
> sufficiently standalone utility, which, unlike the rest of package,
> has pretty heavy dependencies - should be solved by separating such
> utility(ies) into own package, with only it having these heavy
> dependencies.

And we shouldn't even be using gpsd on embedded devices:
http://folks.o-hand.com/iain/gypsy/why-not-gpsd.html

regards,

Koen

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koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl will go go away in december 2007, please
use k.kooi at student.utwente.nl instead.

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