Thanks for this constructive assessment.
I will have a look at all of these issues.

On 15/03/2011 15:30, Bogdan Marinov wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:09 PM, rusirius<[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>> I believe that the code for my Gps Locator plugin is now just about
>> complete and will allow any serial GPS device  (or USB device presenting
>> on a COM or /ttyUSB port) sending NMEA sentences to be used to provide
>> position data to Stellarium. I have tested on Windows and Ubuntu Linux
>> but it still needs testing on a Mac. Can you advise me what the next
>> step is please? Should I now request a merge?
> The good news is that I found out how to merge two unrelated Bazaar
> branches, so the way the branch was created will not be a problem for
> merging it into the trunk (just don't use the standard merge proposal
> mechanism).
>
> The bad news:
> - your branch throws an exception in the destructor of the GPS class
> when the plug-in is de-initialized. Looking at it reveals that you are
> trying to deallocate an array. Please remove it, as arrays as a type
> are automatically deallocated.
> - your code is breaking *both* C++'s common coding conventions and
> Stellarium's preferred coding style. For example, function names
> should not begin with a capital letter. See
> http://www.stellarium.org/doc/head/codingStyle.html
>
> Some other points:
> - I think it's a good idea to mention the NMEA standard explicitly in
> the description of the plug-in.
> - The button image is ugly and doesn't blend with the rest of the
> icons. I think that a simple, one color image (for example, the
> letters "GPS") would be better than the current one.
>
> Regards,
> Bogdan Marinov
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