Status update

[Jussi Kukkonen]

iain wrote:
> I am sure the API isn't finalised as we've only been writing simple
> clients with it, and there are still rough edges to smooth out, but
> we're starting to think about how the Master process will work and this
> should help us work out what needs fixed or changed in the API.

If anyone is interested in trying this out already, there are some
things you need to know: The providers we have work quite nicely on
their own*, but like Iain said there's no "master provider" or "default
provider" functionality so providers need to be referred to explicitly.
They also need to be started by hand , as there are no dbus services
files yet. something like this:

| $ providers/hostip/geoclue-hostip &
| $ example/address-example Hostip
| Current address:
|         country = FINLAND
|         locality = Helsinki
|         countrycode = FI
|
|         Accuracy level 3 (20000 meters)
| $

 *) there's a pesky dbus type registration bug so I'm not promising that
    signals work at this exact moment



The providers currently offer these ifaces:
  Hostip    implements Position, Address
  Gypsy     implements Position
  Geonames  implements Geocode, ReverseGeocode
We've not not implemented other providers yet, just so that possible
changes to the interfaces would be easy.

I'll get the docs into readable condition in the next couple of days and
put them up as html, so you won't need to build them. Our plan is to
start working on the master next week.

 - Jussi

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