Re: [ gpsdrive ] Support for Bluetooth GPS?

On Saturday 03 February 2007 02:50, J.D. Schmidt wrote:
> Guenther Meyer skrev:
> > one other thing comes to my mind, joerg:
> > as almost all gps-receivers should work more or less with gpsd, is the
> > built in serial support in gpsdrive still needed, or could it be removed?
> >
> > guenther
>
> IMHO the serial support should be left IN GPSdrive, not removed.
> That way if one runs on a limited system memorywise, and aren't going to
> be running any other apps that should access the GPS, one can still run
> GPSdrive.
>
> GPSD is a benefit only, if you need to run multiple apps that should
> access a GPS.
> Being able to use GPSDrive without other packages running, with a
> straight NMEA input on a serial port is IMHO a big benefit of the package.

I think the memory advantage is more on the negative side with the serial 
stuff inside gpsdrive. gpsd only needs 32K (23K in memory). And since the 
serial code and all arround it in gpsdrive is really old grown it's probably 
smaller to rip this out and have gpsd run as a seperate process. THe next 
benefit is that we don't have to hazzle about sigsegs with new receivers 
which send unexpected strings to gpsdrive. So I would really like to see the 
real NMEA parsing outside of the core gpsdrive program.
As already mentioned I would put in a feature (autostart-gpsd)  which would 
optionally start gpsd directly while starting gpsdrive.

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Joerg
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