[Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

[Joshua Layne]

Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> Hello Matthias,
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> Thursday, January 3, 2008, 3:11:52 PM, you wrote:
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>> Apart from the apparent dislike of the Author of gpsds networking
>> function, for which he never gave any good reason but "I don't like it",
>> an interesting read indeed. But as someone else already mentioned, gpsd
>> is the "standard" ATM.
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>   I can second this. It doesn't take long thought to imagine how nice
> it may be to use GPS-enabled smartphone as a kind of standalone GPS
> for laptop, and doesn't take too long forums searching do see that
> that's what many users actually look for. For WinCE/Windows, one has to
> install commercial multiplexors to achieve that, fortunately, with Unix,
> it's standard feature, thanks to gpsd.
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As a user of mapping software, I can say that gpsd works, mostly.  It is 
hard for me to fully differentiate distro from gpsd from gpsd version to 
version, but.... gpsd has hung my system more than once. (95% cpu, 
unable to kill....)

I personally like the architecture of gypsy better, but it is more (read 
as: something additional) for the app developers to support.  Currently, 
I am unaware of any apps that are using gypsy - when that changes, 
angstrom should _at minimum_ have a recipe for gypsy, and if it really 
proves to take off, perhaps it should replace gpsd.  Unfortunately, for 
the very reason that they both exist, they should conflict with each 
other (IMO) although I suppose it would be possible to have both 
installed, provided you weren't running both at the same time.

I would like to do some prototyping with gypsy, but so far I am about 3 
weeks behind on 'would like to' s, so I don't realistically know when I 
will get to it.

I need to use navit to be able to comment intelligently, but as I have 
mentioned previously.... I like roadmap :P (to Matthias's question).

Rgds,
josh