Geoclue maemo repository status...

[stephen at wintoncourt.co.uk]

I would be more than happy to push these things forward, but alas I'm not a
programmer, which would limit my ability to make any changes to the code
itself.  However, if it's just a case of submitting stuff into the repos, I
may well be able to do that...

Steve

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:22:10 +0300, Jussi Kukkonen <jku at o-hand.com> wrote:
> Stephen Wing wrote:
>> I was talking briefly with Henrik Hedberg about adding Geoclue support 
>> into Mauku, the Jaiku client for Maemo, and his response was "There is 
>> initial Geoclue support in the version control repository by Jussi 
>> Kukkonen, but it has not been progressed lately."
>> 
>> Jussi; can you confirm whether or not the version in the repository is 
>> the latest, most stable version, and something we should be promoting 
>> Henrik to use in an upcoming update to Mauku?  I don't want him using 
>> something that's not the best, but equally, it would be a very good 
>> client to add location support into.
> 
> It would need a bit of work I think -- the mauku support was one of the
> tests I used for the API, and IIRC I did find some omissions that I then
> fixed (adding async method calls was one I think). Also it currently
> uses master provider and manual provider, and I think that's not the
> best option for mauku
> 
> I do have this on my todo-list but unfortunately being on that list
> doesn't always move things forward (sorry)... If you want to take over
> this, I'd be really happy to help you out and explain the options in
> detail.
> 
>> Out of interest, the Geoclue doesn't seem to be in the main repos; which
> 
>> repo is it in, and when (if at all) will it get promoted into one of the
> 
>> main repos?
> 
> Shamefully it is not in a repo yet. I'll take care of that ASAP (which
> may translate to next week since I'll be as far away from a laptop as I
> can on midsummer weekend).
> 
> If you're interested in pushing one of these things, catch me on IRC
> (jku on #geoclue on gimpnet) or jabber (jku at jabber.org)
> 
>  Jussi