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Re: [ gpsdrive ] removing direct serial support?: msg#00049

Subject: Re: [ gpsdrive ] removing direct serial support?
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 08:39 +0100, Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive
Munich/Germany) wrote:
> > what about including libgpsd, would that make it more resource friendly?
> > a first quick grep over the code didn't reveal anything. i guess gpsd
> > (daemon) would still have to be running, but we could throw away nmea
> > parsing. just an idea.. i haven't coded with libgpsd and i'm currently busy
> > with a carpc frontend (nghost)..
> 
> Yes it would!!
> Also it would make it more flexible, because you also could do the 
> communication via DBUS if available.
but it is possible without dbus? (i don't know how much mobile users
will like the additional burden of DBUS, afaik it isn't a default
component for slim setups)

> My last attemts ended in simply trying 
> to gather together all the gps-socket and nmea parsing to some files, so the 
> are not scattered all over the code. But we'll have to do much more in this 
> area.
yeah it'd make sense to group code before moving, this should also make
the process less bug-prone

> -
> Joerg
you're doing a great job here coordinating and coding, joerg, thanks a
lot - i think i speek for everybody here


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