Re: [Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

2008-01-04 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sokolovsky schreef: | Hello Matthias, | | Thursday, January 3, 2008, 3:11:52 PM, you wrote: | | [] | |> 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", |

Re: [Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

2008-01-04 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Donnerstag, den 03.01.2008, 15:33 +0200 schrieb Paul Sokolovsky: > Hello Matthias, > > Thursday, January 3, 2008, 3:11:52 PM, you wrote: > > [] > > > 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",

Re: [Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

2008-01-03 Thread Joshua Layne
Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Hello Matthias, > > Thursday, January 3, 2008, 3:11:52 PM, you wrote: > > [] > > >> 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

Re: [Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

2008-01-03 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello Matthias, Thursday, January 3, 2008, 3:11:52 PM, you wrote: [] > 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 "

Re: [Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

2008-01-03 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello Andrea, Thursday, January 3, 2008, 3:06:36 PM, you wrote: > err.. I forgot to say the mantainer is Eric S. Raymond > BTW don't forget http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3532 > I know it could be GPE "misbehaviour" but my point is... Of GPE configuration applets, I estimate

Re: [Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

2008-01-03 Thread Matthias Hentges
Hey there, Am Donnerstag, den 03.01.2008, 07:01 -0600 schrieb Junqian Gordon Xu: > On 01/03/2008 04:30 AM, Koen Kooi wrote: > > > And we shouldn't even be using gpsd on embedded devices: > > http://folks.o-hand.com/iain/gypsy/why-not-gpsd.html > > Interesting read and good info from a person un

Re: [Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

2008-01-03 Thread Andrea Adami
err.. I forgot to say the mantainer is Eric S. Raymond BTW don't forget http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3532 I know it could be GPE "misbehaviour" but my point is...why would one do the gpsd configuration from there? Unless you use bluetooth serial connection, gpsd is supposed to

Re: [Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

2008-01-03 Thread Junqian Gordon Xu
On 01/03/2008 04:30 AM, Koen Kooi wrote: > And we shouldn't even be using gpsd on embedded devices: > http://folks.o-hand.com/iain/gypsy/why-not-gpsd.html Interesting read and good info from a person understands the guts about gpsd. O-hand should advertise it more, so more navigation software ca

Re: [Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

2008-01-03 Thread Junqian Gordon Xu
On 01/03/2008 01:41 AM, Andrea Adami wrote: > Thanks for the commits. > > Just to inform you gpsd-2.36 has been released two days ago... Thanks for the info. Looks like 2.35 has to give way to 2.36. Regards Gordon ___ Angstrom-distro-devel mailing lis

Re: [Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

2008-01-03 Thread Andrea Adami
> And we shouldn't even be using gpsd on embedded devices: > http://folks.o-hand.com/iain/gypsy/why-not-gpsd.html > > regards, > > Koen Koen, I can agree with you (see, I personally use openntpd instead of ntpd) but gpsd is *de-facto standard* and is *well* supported: http://svn.berlios.de/svnroo

Re: [Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

2008-01-03 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 shou

Re: [Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

2008-01-03 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
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: g

Re: [Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

2008-01-02 Thread Andrea Adami
Thanks for the commits. Just to inform you gpsd-2.36 has been released two days ago... http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=13944 I'll be happy to test it. Thanks ___ Angstrom-distro-devel mailing list Angstrom-distro-devel@

Re: [Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

2008-01-02 Thread Junqian Gordon Xu
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

[Angstrom-devel] RFC: upgrade gpsd to 2.35

2007-12-27 Thread Andrea Adami
With the recent GPS-Applications galore I'd prefer to work with the latest gpsd. BTW we need to fix this: 3529: gpsd : missing python module curses.ascii $cat gpscat #!/usr/bin/env python # # Display GPS output. Hexify it if necessary. # import os, sys, termios, select, getopt, curses.ascii imp