On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Chris Peterson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/4/14 10:02 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>>>
>>> >Zeeshan: what became of the Geoclue patch in bug 485472? dougt r-'d the
>>> >proposed patch (in 2009), but AFAICT only for minor issues that can be
>>> >corrected, not for any fundamental disagreement about using Geoclue.
>>
>> Any patches on that bug are obsolete for an year now since geoclue2 is
>> a different beast than geoclue1. Not only geoclue1 is totally
>> unmaintained for years, we ripped the whole repository (since geoclue2
>> was a complete re-write) so it doesn't make any sense now to use
>> geoclue1.
>
>
> Based on your recommendation, I closed bug 485472 because geoclue 1 is
> obsolete. Work to integrate geoclue2 should happen in a new bug to avoid
> confusion.

Sure.

> Please note that writing the code to use geoclue2 is not on our team's
> roadmap,

:(

>but patches are happily accepted. <:)

I was wondering when I'll hear this. :) I do plan to look into this
but being a total noob to gecko code and having had zero experience
with C++ for last 12 years, I'd need a lot more time to do this then a
regular firefox hacker so don't know when I can look into this.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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