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) ________________________________________ Befriend GNOME: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
