On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:06:12 +0300 Timo Juhani Lindfors <[email protected]> wrote:
> Currently I only have a set of patches that add support for libgps. tangoGPS has started with libgps and around version 0.7 switched away due to too many bugs. What finally triggered the switch was the fact that it didn't deliver the altitude due to a bug. As the most important data of a GPS is position, speed and altitude I considered libgps either unmaintained or with a massive lack of quality control. What really counts is user experience and the maintainer of gpsd is not willing to play with others. There is probably 4 or 5 major projects using it and he didn't bother to communicate his API changes. However great the new API may be, users of tangoGPS care about getting the position - either it works or it does not. gpsd introduced breakage for several downstream projects between 2.90 and 2.92. This was announced in the man page... All that counts for a tangoGPS user is to reliably get the position. IMHO gpsd is much too erratic to support and one of the next releases will allow direct access to the serial port too. The additional plus on hardware like openmoko is that it saves another 50% of CPU when running tangoGPS without gpsd, due to the inefficiency of gpsd. That said, thanks for your bug report on the debian bugzilla because I wasn't aware of it! Marcus _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
