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[Radek Polak]

On Tuesday, October 02, 2012 08:01:03 PM Neil Jerram wrote:

> Attached is a patch to make QtMoko's GPS framework (Q*Whereabouts) use
> gpsd instead of reading directly from /dev/ttyO1.  The benefit of that
> is that multiple clients, both Qt and non-Qt, can all use GPS at the
> same time.

Nice, i was trying to do something like this too, but without any results.

But I wonder how much is gpsd useful for us now. We have lightweight 
Whereabouts framework which now works good on GTA02 and GTA04. On GTA02 it 
even handles supplying AGPS data.

I wonder what GPSD can do for us. It's another program running in background 
eating system resources. The programs that will use GPSD will be poorly 
integrated in QtMoko - i.e. not showing the fix status in title bar, no 
blinking with LED to indicated NMEA activity, no AGPS.

This leads us to question - how many programs will use the GPSD. Navit can be 
quite easily adjusted to use QWereabouts, i think the same can be done with 
Monav and Marble.

And one more thing - i hate GPSD because they are breaking API compatibility 
and we have no control of it. I want now to do some wheezy/armhf experimental 
release for GTA04 and if wheezy/sqeeze gpsd are not compatible then it's quite 
problem...

Regards

Radek